Influence of polarization orientation of violet light on the diffraction efficiency of bacteriorhodopsin.
When a grating is recorded in a bacteriorhodopsin film by two linear parallel polarized beams together with an auxiliary violet light, the diffraction efficiency has a dependence on the polarization orientation of the violet light as well as its intensity. A method for calculating the diffraction efficiency of gratings in bacteriorhodopsin is proposed based on the two-state photochromic model, considering the saturation effect and the polarization status of all the involved lights. It is found that the polarization orientation of the violet light produces an approximate-cosine and an approximate-sine modulation on the steady-state diffraction efficiency separately at low and high intensities, respectively. The parallel polarized violet light can improve the steady-state diffraction efficiency to a larger degree than the perpendicularly polarized violet light when both are at their optimal intensities. The optimal intensity for the parallel polarized violet light is lower than that of the perpendicular polarized one. Thus, the improvement of the steady-state diffraction efficiency is less sensitive to the intensity of perpendicular polarized violet light than to that of parallel polarized violet light.
State Key Laboratory of Transient Optics and Photonics, Xi'an Institute of Optics and Precision Mechanics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Xi'an 710119, China. yaobl@opt.ac.cn
Baoli
B
Yao
Peng
P
Gao
Junhe
J
Han
Liju
L
Chen
Yingli
Y
Wang
Ming
M
Lei
D016880:Anisotropy; D001436:Bacteriorhodopsins / Q000737:chemistry*; D008027:Light; D012542:Scattering, Radiation
D001436:Bacteriorhodopsins