Origin of Retroreflection from a Wing of the Morpho Butterfly

We have performed detailed angular and spectroscopic measurements on a typical species of Morpho butterflies, Morpho rhetenor , and have found that the butterfly wing shows characteristic retroreflection in a blue region, when light is incident around 10--30 \circ inclined from the normal to the sca...

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Veröffentlicht in:	Journal of the Physical Society of Japan 2011-05, Vol.80 (5), p.054801-054801-10
Hauptverfasser:	Kambe, Makoto, Zhu, Dong, Kinoshita, Shuichi
Format:	Artikel
Sprache:	eng
Schlagworte:	Edge and boundary effects reflection and refraction Exact sciences and technology Fundamental areas of phenomenology (including applications) Optics Physics Wave optics
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