On dispersion in visual photoreceptors.
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چکیده
An idealized visual pigment absorbance spectrum is used together with a Framers-tionig dispersion relation to calculate the contribution of the visual pigment to the refractive index of the fly photoreceptor. It appears that an absorption coeftcient of OGlO pm’ results in a refractive index variation of less than 5 x IO-*. The effect of this smali variation on waveguide properties of the fly photoreceptor is found to be negligible. It is argued that this conclusion also holds for other v&al photoneceptors.
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ورودعنوان ژورنال:
- Vision research
دوره 15 شماره
صفحات -
تاریخ انتشار 1975