Improved light extraction in the bioluminescent lantern of a Photuris firefly (Lampyridae)

Optics Express

Volumn 21, Issue 1, 2013, Pages 764-780

  Bay, Annick ^a   Cloetens, Peter ^b   Suhonen, Heikki ^b   Vigneron, Jean Pol ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NAMUR   (Belgium)

^b EUROPEAN SYNCHROTRON RADIATION FACILITY   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BIOLOGY; LIGHT; LIGHT SOURCES; REFRACTIVE INDEX;

ADVERSE EFFECT; ARTIFICIAL DEVICES; EXTERNAL SCALE; LIGHT EXTRACTION; OPTICAL STRUCTURES; TOTAL INTERNAL REFLECTIONS;

BIOLUMINESCENCE;

ANIMAL; ARTICLE; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; FIREFLY; HISTOLOGY; LIGHT; LUMINESCENCE; METHODOLOGY; MICROSCOPY; OPTICS; PHYSIOLOGY; REFRACTOMETRY; SCANNING ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; STATISTICAL MODEL; TOMOGRAPHY;

ANIMALS; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; FIREFLIES; LIGHT; LUMINESCENCE; LUMINESCENT MEASUREMENTS; MICROSCOPY; MICROSCOPY, ELECTRON, SCANNING; MODELS, STATISTICAL; OPTICS AND PHOTONICS; REFRACTOMETRY; TOMOGRAPHY;

EID: 84872712734     PISSN: None     EISSN: 10944087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OE.21.000764     Document Type: Article

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