Biomimetics in Photonics

by Olaf Karthaus (Editor)

Overview

Biomimetic photonics is a burgeoning field. Biologists are finding and describing a whole menagerie of unique and astonishingly complex nano- and microstructures in fauna and flora. Material scientists are developing novel multifunctional and hierarchical structures with a wide variety of post-nano era photonics applications. Mathematicians and com

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781040053478
Publisher:	CRC Press
Publication date:	10/26/2012
Series:	Series in Optics and Optoelectronics
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
Pages:	289
File size:	5 MB

Table of Contents

Photonic Structures in Plants. Biomineralization and Photonics. Biometrics of Optical Nanostructures. Photomechanic IR Receptors in Pyrophilous Beetles and Bugs. Toward Industrial Production of Biomimetic Photonic Structures. A Night Vision Algorithm Inspired by the Visual System of a Nocturnal Bee. Modeling and FDTD Calculations.

Editorial Reviews

"… interesting and illuminating … a useful introduction to the field of biomimetics for photonic applications."
—MRS Bulletin, July 2014

"… provides new insights into biomimetic photonics. … The reader will find a careful discussion of a night-vision algorithm inspired by the visual system of a nocturnal bee, and a presentation of bio-inspired antireflection coatings."
—Christian Brosseau, Université de Bretagne Occidentale in Brest, France, and a Fellow of OSA

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