High-contrast, all-optical switching in bacteriorhodopsin films

Applied Optics

Volumn 44, Issue 26, 2005, Pages 5497-5503

  Banyal, Ravinder Kumar ^a   Prasad, B Raghavendra ^a  

^a INDIAN INSTITUTE OF ASTROPHYSICS   (India)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BACTERIOLOGY; LIGHT TRANSMISSION; LIGHTING; PHOTOCHROMISM; PROBES;

BACTERIORHODOPSIN (BR) FILMS; EXCITATION RATES; OPTICAL SWITCHING; PROBE BEAMS;

BIOFILMS;

BACTERIORHODOPSIN;

ARTICLE; ARTIFICIAL MEMBRANE; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; CHEMICAL MODEL; CHEMISTRY; COMPUTER SIMULATION; LIGHT; OPTICS; PURPLE MEMBRANE; RADIATION DOSE; RADIATION EXPOSURE; RADIATION RESPONSE; REFRACTOMETRY;

BACTERIORHODOPSINS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; DOSE-RESPONSE RELATIONSHIP, RADIATION; LIGHT; MEMBRANES, ARTIFICIAL; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; MODELS, CHEMICAL; OPTICS; PURPLE MEMBRANE; RADIATION DOSAGE; REFRACTOMETRY;

EID: 25444500809     PISSN: 1559128X     EISSN: 15394522     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/AO.44.005497     Document Type: Article

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