Electrodynamics of visible-light interactions with the vertebrate retinal rod

Optics Letters

Volumn 18, Issue 8, 1993, Pages 568-570

  Piket May, Melinda J ^a   Taflove, Allen ^a   Troy, John B ^a  

^a NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ELECTRODYNAMICS; ELECTROMAGNETIC FIELDS; PHOTOSENSITIVITY;

LIGHT INTERACTIONS; MAXWELL EQUATIONS; RETINAL RODS;

LIGHT PROPAGATION;

EID: 0027573674     PISSN: 01469592     EISSN: 15394794     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OL.18.000568     Document Type: Article

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