Light manipulation principles in biological photonic systems

Nanophotonics

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Tim Starkey¹  Pete Vukusic¹ 

[1] Natural Photonics Group, School of Physics, University of Exeter

关键词: structural colour;    photonics;    multilayer interference;    diffraction;    biology;    butterfly;   

DOI  :  10.1515/nanoph-2013-0015

学科分类：社会科学、人文和艺术（综合）

来源: De Gruyter

【 摘 要 】

The science of light and colour manipulation continues to generate interest across a range of disciplines, from mainstream biology, across multiple physics-based fields, to optical engineering. Furthermore, the study of light production and manipulation is of significant value to a variety of industrial processes and commercial products. Among the several key methods by which colour is produced in the biological world, this review sets out to describe, in some detail, the specifics of the method involving photonics in animal and plant systems; namely, the mechanism commonly referred to as structural colour generation. Not only has this theme been a very rapidly growing area of physics-based interest, but also it is increasingly clear that the biological world is filled with highly evolved structural designs by which light and colour strongly influence behaviours and ecological functions.

【 授权许可】

CC BY