Document Type
Article
Publication Date
9-13-1993
Abstract
We report direct observations of all‐optical mirrorless bistability associated with saturable absorption in three kinds of bacteriorhodopsin (BR) samples: wild‐type BR in water solution and dispersed in thin films of a polymer matrix as well as water solution of the genetically engineered mutant BRD96N. The experiments are carried out with picosecond pulses at 532 nm. The values measured for the saturation intensity are explained in terms of the relaxation of the excited M state population to the B state of the BR photocycle for the three kinds of samples studied.
Recommended Citation
Rao, D.V.G.L.N.; Aranda, F. J.; Wiley, B. J.; Akkar, J. A.; Kaplan, D. L.; and Roach, J. F., "Mirrorless all‐optical bistability in bacteriorhodopsin" (1993). Physics Faculty Publications. 33.
https://scholarworks.umb.edu/physics_faculty_pubs/33
Publisher
American Institute of Physics
Rights
Copyright 1993 American Institute of Physics. This article may be downloaded for personal use only. Any other use requires prior permission of the author and the American Institute of Physics.
Comments
The following article appeared in Applied Physics Letters, vol. 63, issue 11 (1993) and may be found at http://dx.doi.org/10.1063/1.109665.
Copyright 1993 American Institute of Physics. This article may be downloaded for personal use only. Any other use requires prior permission of the author and the American Institute of Physics.