BACKGROUND The interdisciplinary field of animal coloration is growing rapidly, spanning
questions about the diverse ways that animals use pigments and structures to generate …

Precise optical and thermal regulatory systems are found in nature, specifically in the
microstructures on organisms' surfaces. In fact, the interaction between light and matter …

Waveplates are widely used in photonics to control the polarization of light,. Often, they are
fabricated from birefringent crystals that have different refractive indices along and normal to …

Animal colour patterns are a model system for understanding evolution because they are
unusually accessible for study and experimental manipulation. This is possible because …

In recent years, the study of polarisation vision in animals has seen numerous
breakthroughs, not just in terms of what is known about the function of this sensory ability …

Bionic adaptive camouflage material is a new artificial functional material, whose surface
color can change adaptively according to the optical environments. Therefore, how to …

Hyperspectral data encode information from electromagnetic radiation (ie, color) of any
object in the form of a spectral signature; these data can then be used to distinguish among …

The diminishing of the polarization effect is important in the applications of dielectric
multilayer reflectors in many optical systems, such as low-loss broadband waveguides …

For a wide range of applications, a fast, non-destructive, remote, and sensitive identification
of samples with predefined characteristics is preferred instead of their full characterization. In …

Beetles exhibit an extraordinary diversity of brilliant and colourful appearances and optical
effects invisible to humans. Their underlying mechanisms have received some attention, but …