Fixing and retrieving recorded information produced by means of photosensitive material of biological origin

摘要

A method of recording and reproducing information using a photographic recording material which comprises a support bearing at least one photosensitive layer containing photoactive protochlorophyll(ide)-apoprotein complex. The layer is exposed to light of the wavelength region absorbed by the complex in a pattern representing information to be recorded and forms a corresponding pattern of differentiations in light-absorption and fluorescence-emission characteristics. The latter can be scanned to reproduce the information.