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APPLIED OPTICS
Volume 48, Issue 21, Pages 4177-4190Publisher
OPTICAL SOC AMER
DOI: 10.1364/AO.48.004177
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- John Pippin Chair in Electromagnetics within the School of Electrical and Computer Engineering at the Georgia Institute of Technology
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Many species of butterflies exhibit interesting optical phenomena due to structural color. The physical reason for this color is subwavelength features on the surface of a single scale. The exposed surface of a scale is covered with a ridge structure. The fully three-dimensional, periodic, finite-difference time-domain method is used to create a detailed electromagnetic model of a generic ridge. A novel method for presenting the three-dimensional observed color pattern is developed. Using these tools, the change in color that is a result of varying individual features of the scale is explored. Computational models are developed that are similar to three butterflies: Morpho rhetenor, Troides magellanus, and Ancyluris meliboeus. (C) 2009 Optical Society of America
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