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APPLIED OPTICS
Volume 39, Issue 15, Pages 2496-2498Publisher
OPTICAL SOC AMER
DOI: 10.1364/AO.39.002496
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We measured the visible reflectance spectra of whole wing sections from three species of iridescent butterflies and moths, for normal incidence, integrated over all reflected angles. In this manner, we separated the optics of the thin films causing the iridescence from the optics of the rest of the scale. We found that iridescence reduces salar absorption by the wing in all cases. typically by approximately 20% or less, in contrast to claims by Miaoulis and Heilman [Ann. Entomol. Sec. Am. 91, 122 (1998)] that the thin-film structures that produce iridescence act as solar collectors. (C) 2000 Optical Society of America OCIS codes: 240.0310, 260.3160, 310.6860, 170.1420.
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