A Novel Optical Filter for Removing Bright-Background Using an
Enhanced Bacteriorhodopsin Thin Film
ZHANG Chun-Ping1, GU Li-Qun1, CHEN Gui-Ying1, GUO Zong-Xia1, FU Guang-Hua2, ZHANG Guang-Yin1, ZHANG Tian-Hao1, LI Yu-Dong1, Q. Wang SONG3
1Photonics Center, Nankai University, Tianjin 300071
2Medical College for Tianjin Workers, Tianjin 300152
3Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, Syracuse University, Syracuse, NY 13244, USA
A Novel Optical Filter for Removing Bright-Background Using an
Enhanced Bacteriorhodopsin Thin Film
1Photonics Center, Nankai University, Tianjin 300071
2Medical College for Tianjin Workers, Tianjin 300152
3Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, Syracuse University, Syracuse, NY 13244, USA
Abstract： We found that the bacteriorhodopsin (bR) film has a special property of complementary suppression modulated transmission (CSMT). The yellow and the blue beams can be suppressed mutually when both the beams illuminate the bR film simultaneously. When the blue beam carrying an image with a bright-background noise illuminates on the bR film and then a yellow beam with uniform intensity distribution illuminates the same area, the bright-background can be removed due to the CSMT. In our demonstration, the pattern model is letters “VLSI”with ground noise of small words and the ground noise is removed from the pattern by the new optical filter.
2003, Vol. 20 
