Optical reflectance and transmittance of photonic polycrystalline structures from living organisms

Jean-Pol Vigneron; Annick Bay; Jean-François Colomer; Eloise Van Hooijdonk; Priscilla Simonis

doi:10.1117/12.928178

11 October 2012 Optical reflectance and transmittance of photonic polycrystalline structures from living organisms

Jean-Pol Vigneron, Annick Bay, Jean-François Colomer, Eloise Van Hooijdonk, Priscilla Simonis

Proceedings Volume 8480, The Nature of Light: Light in Nature IV; 84800H (2012) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.928178
Event: SPIE Optical Engineering + Applications, 2012, San Diego, California, United States

Abstract

Scales from specific weevils, longhorns and butterflies have been shown to internally contain a photonic structure that can be described as the agglomeration of photonic crystallites. Usually, the same local photonic structure is found in all crystallites, with different orientations. This distribution is investigated by analysing a large amount of fractured scales. The visual effects produced by fractioning the photonic-crystal into the aggregation of reoriented photonic crystallites can be, for increasing disorder, (1) the loss of iridescence and the loss of metallicity for diffuse coloration, (2) the loss of coloration.

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Jean-Pol Vigneron, Annick Bay, Jean-François Colomer, Eloise Van Hooijdonk, and Priscilla Simonis "Optical reflectance and transmittance of photonic polycrystalline structures from living organisms", Proc. SPIE 8480, The Nature of Light: Light in Nature IV, 84800H (11 October 2012); https://doi.org/10.1117/12.928178

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