Sculpted-multilayer optical effects in two species of Papilio butterfly

Applied Optics

Volumn 40, Issue 7, 2001, Pages 1116-1125

  Vukusic, Peter ^a   Sambles, Roy ^a   Lawrence, Christopher ^b   Wakely, Gavin ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF EXETER   (United Kingdom)

^b DEFENCE SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY LABORATORY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

LIGHT POLARIZATION; MODULATION; MULTILAYERS;

OPTICAL EFFECTS;

OPTICAL ENGINEERING;

EID: 0000541238     PISSN: 1559128X     EISSN: 21553165     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/AO.40.001116     Document Type: Article

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