Anomalous disperison of rhodopsin in rod outer segments of the frog.
Linear-retardation spectra of single frog-rod outer segments were measured by use of a microspectrophotometer equipped with polarizing optics. The recorded transmitted-flux variation was reduced to a rhodopsin anomalous-dispersion spectrum by use of the Jones calculus. This anomalous dispersion is compared with theoretical predictions.
D000818:Animals; D001001:Anura; D001718:Birefringence; D002942:Circular Dichroism; D008433:Mathematics; D008859:Microscopy, Polarization; D010786:Photoreceptor Cells / Q000502:physiology*; D012168:Retinal Pigments / Q000502:physiology*; D012243:Rhodopsin / Q000502:physiology*; D013053:Spectrophotometry
D012168:Retinal Pigments; D012243:Rhodopsin