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Absorption-assisted mode transformation in butterfly compound eyes

The ommatidium of the butterfly's afocal apposition eye exhibits angular performance that can only be achieved by transforming the diffraction pattern of its corneal lens into the fundamental mode of its rhabdom waveguide. A graded index model of the ommatidium has been proposed and verified bu...

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Autor principal: Kim, Jaeyoun
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Nature Publishing Group 2014
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4155338/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/25189377
http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/srep06291