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Optics Letters

All-optical time-delay relay based on a bacteriorhodopsin film

Guiying Chen, Yizhe Yuan, Chunping Zhang, Guan Yang, Jian Guo Tian, Xu Tang, Q. Wang Song

Published Apr 28, 2006• 8 citations
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Abstract

Using the property of dynamic complementary suppression modulated transmission of bacteriorhodopsin film, we propose and demonstrate an all-optical time-delay relay in an incoherent light system. The relay can last for a certain amount of time after the switch function of turn off (or turn on) is activated. Furthermore, the delay time can be adjusted by changing the lifetime of the M state and the intensities of blue and yellow beams.

DOI
10.1364/ol.31.001531

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