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Guiying Chen1, Chunping Zhang, Zongxia Guo
1Department of Physics, Tianjin University of Science and Technology, Tianjin 300222, China. julie_chen6323@yahoo.com.cn
Abstract:
To continue our earlier research on novelty filters in a system of incoherent light [Opt. Lett. 30,81 (2005)], we discuss the relationship between parameters of a bacteriorhodopsin film and the quality of a novelty filter image. For both fixed and moving velocities of the input image, differences in the novelty filter's image as a function of thickness, lifetime of the M state, and molecular concentration are displayed, and the optimal ranges of parameters of the bR film that correspond to the entire novelty filter image and obvious gray-level differences in the image are given. The method can be used to design high-quality novelty filter images in incoherent light systems.
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