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In a recent paper (FISCHER and RÖHLER, 1973) we investigated the excitation and absorption properties of a photoreceptor model which consisted of an infinite, dielectric, absorbing cylinder, imbedded in a non-absorbing dielectric medium. In our opinion the essential progress made in this paper, compared with former model calculations (SNITZER, 1961; RÖHLER and FISCHER, 1971) is the consideration of exciting plane waves which are inclined to the axis of the cylinder.
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Fischer, W., Röhler, R. (1975). Light Absorption in an Idealised Photoreceptor on the Basis of Waveguide Theory. In: Snyder, A.W., Menzel, R. (eds) Photoreceptor Optics. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-80934-7_12
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