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Jay Enoch made important contributions to our understanding of how the waveguide nature of photoreceptors leads to the Stiles-Crawford effect. One of the issues that has been controversial in the past is the dependence of the Stiles-Crawford effect on wavelength. This issue has been difficult to analyze because the mode structure of waveguides involves complex mathematics. The present paper describes a simple approach for understanding aspects of the problem. A numerical approach is advocated.
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Klein, S.A. (1997). Photoreceptor Waveguides - A Simple Approach. In: Lakshminarayanan, V. (eds) Basic and Clinical Applications of Vision Science. Documenta Ophthalmologica Proceedings Series, vol 60. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-011-5698-1_2
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