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Feather Nanostructures Inspire Two Laser Designs
Researchers at Yale University, U.S.A., created two lasers by copying the structure in feathers that gives bluebirds (among other animals) such brilliant color.
The nanostructures that give bird feathers their brilliant colors inspired the design of lasers that may someday self-assemble.
The structure in feathers that gives bluebirds (among other animals) such brilliant color inspired researchers at Yale University, U.S.A., to copy the pattern to create lasers. At OSA’s Frontiers in Optics meeting last year, Hui Cao of Yale described the lasers in her presentation,“Bio-inspired photonic nanostructures and lasers” (paper FWW1, 2011).
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