Imaging scatterometry of butterfly wing scales

Optics Express

Volumn 17, Issue 1, 2009, Pages 193-202

  Stavenga, D G ^a   Leertouwer, H L ^a   Pirih, P ^a   Wehling, M F ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GRONINGEN   (Netherlands)

^b AIR FORCE RESEARCH LABORATORY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

METEOROLOGICAL INSTRUMENTS; REFLECTION;

ANGLE OF INCIDENCE; BUTTERFLY WINGS; ELLIPSOIDAL REFLECTORS; HEMISPHERICAL REFLECTANCE; MEASUREMENTS OF; SCATTERING PROFILES; SCATTEROMETERS; SCATTEROMETRY;

OPTICAL SYSTEMS;

ANIMAL; ARTICLE; BUTTERFLY; FORELIMB; HISTOLOGY; ILLUMINATION; IMAGE PROCESSING; LIGHT; OPTICAL INSTRUMENTATION; OPTICS; PHYSIOLOGY; PIGMENTATION; RADIATION SCATTERING;

ANIMALS; BUTTERFLIES; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; LENSES; LIGHT; LIGHTING; OPTICS AND PHOTONICS; PIGMENTATION; SCATTERING, RADIATION; WING;

EID: 58449127824     PISSN: None     EISSN: 10944087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OE.17.000193     Document Type: Article

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