Study of laser actions by bird’s feathers with photonic crystals

Abstract Random lasers had been made by some biomaterials as light scattering materials, but natural photonic crystals have been rarely reported as scattering materials. Here we demonstrate the ability of natural photonic crystals to drive laser actions by sandwiched the feathers of the Turquoise-Fr...

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Main Authors: Shih-Wen Chen, Jin-You Lu, Po-Han Tung, Ja-Hon Lin, Matteo Chiesa, Bing-Yi Hung, Thomas Chung-Kuang Yang
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Nature Publishing Group 2021-01-01
Series:Scientific Reports
Online Access:https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-021-81976-0