Diffractive optics in spiders

Journal of Optics A: Pure and Applied Optics

Volumn 5, Issue 4, 2003, Pages

  Parker, Andrew Richard ^a   Hegedus, Zoltan ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

^b CSIRO   (Australia)

Author keywords

Diffraction grating; Multilayer reflector; Spiders; Structural colour

Indexed keywords

LIGHT REFLECTION; LIGHTING; MULTILAYERS; ULTRAVIOLET RADIATION;

STRUCTURAL COLORS;

DIFFRACTIVE OPTICS;

EID: 0041805425     PISSN: 14644258     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/1464-4258/5/4/364     Document Type: Conference Paper

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