Biologically enabled sub-diffractive focusing

Optics Express

Volumn 22, Issue 22, 2014, Pages 27214-27227

  De Tommasi, E ^a   De Luca, A C ^b   Lavanga, L ^a   Dardano, P ^a   De Stefano, M ^c   De Stefano, L ^a   Langella, C ^c   Rendina, I ^a   Dholakia, K ^d   Mazilu, M ^d  

^a CNR IMM   (Italy)

^b INSTITUTE OF PROTEIN BIOCHEMISTRY   (Italy)

^c SECOND UNIVERSITY OF NAPLES   (Italy)

^d UNIVERSITY OF ST ANDREWS   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

HYDRATED SILICA; PHOTONIC STRUCTURE; PHOTOSYNTHETIC ORGANISMS; PREDATOR-PREY INTERACTION; RESOLUTION LIMITS; STRUCTURAL COLOR; STRUCTURED ILLUMINATION; TRANSMISSION PROPERTY;

ANIMALS;

ANIMAL; COMPUTER SIMULATION; DIATOM; LIGHT RELATED PHENOMENA; MATHEMATICAL COMPUTING; OPTICAL INSTRUMENTATION; PHYSIOLOGY; ULTRASTRUCTURE;

ANIMALS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; DIATOMS; LENSES; NUMERICAL ANALYSIS, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; OPTICAL PHENOMENA;

EID: 84920054268     PISSN: None     EISSN: 10944087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OE.22.027214     Document Type: Article

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