Natural Photonics: Publications

Key personnel: Dr Pete Vukusic, Prof J Roy Sambles

• Trzeciak TM, Vukusic P
  Photonic crystal fiber in the polychaete worm Pherusa sp.
  Phys. Rev. E 80 061908 2009
  Copyright (2009) American Physical Society. The article above may also be found on the journal's website.

• Luke SM, Vukusic P, Hallam B
  Measuring and modelling optical scattering and the colour quality of white pierid butterfly scales.
  Optics Express 17 14729 2009
  Copyright (2009) Optical Society of America. The article above may also be found on the journal's website.

• Hallam BT, Hiorns AG, Vukusic P
  Developing optical efficiency through optimized coating structure: biomimetic inspiration from white beetles
  Applied Optics 48 3243 2009
  Copyright (2009) Optical Society of America. The article above may also be found on the journal's website.

• Vukusic P
  Perspectives: Materials science - Evolutionary photonics with a twist.
  Science 325 398 2009
  Copyright (2009) AAAS. The article above may also be found on the journal's website.

• Shawkey MD, Morehouse NI, Vukusic P
  A protean palette: colour materials and mixing in birds and butterflies
  J R Soc Interface 6 S221 2009
  Copyright (2009) The Royal Society. The article above may also be found on the journal's website.

• Garrett NL, Vukusic P, Ogrin FY, Sirotkin E, Winlove CP, Moger J
  Spectroscopy on the wing: Naturally inspired SERS substrates for biochemical analysis
  J. Biophoton. 2 157 2009
  Copyright (2009) WILEY-VCH Verlag GmbH & Co. KGaA, Weinheim. The article above may also be found on the journal's website.

• Vukusic P, Stavenga DG
  Physical methods for investigating structural colours in biological systems
  J R SOC INTERFACE 6 S133 2009
  Copyright (2009) The Royal Society. The article above may also be found on the journal's website.

• Vukusic P, Kelly R, Hooper I
  A biological sub-micron thickness optical broadband reflector characterized using both light and microwaves
  J R SOC INTERFACE 6 S193 2009
  Copyright (2008) The Royal Society. The article above may also be found on the journal's website.

• Noyes J, Sumper M, Vukusic P
  Light manipulation in a marine diatom
  JOURNAL OF MATERIALS RESEARCH 23 3229 2008
  The article above may be found on the journal's website.

• Jewell SA, Vukusic P and Roberts NW
  Circularly polarised colour reflection from helicoidal structures in the beetle Plusiotis boucardi
  NEW JOURNAL OF PHYSICS 9 (4): 99 Apr 23 2007
  Copyright (2007) IOP Publishing Ltd and Deutsche Physikalische Gesellschaft. The article above may also be found on the journal's website.

• Noyes JA, Vukusic P and Hooper IR
  Experimental method for reliably establishing the refractive index of buprestid beetle exocuticle
  OPTICS EXPRESS 15 (7): 4351 Apr 2 2007
  Copyright (2007) OSA. The article above may also be found on the journal's website

• Morehouse NI, Vukusic P, Rutowski R
  Pterin pigment granules are responsible for both broadband light scattering and wavelength selective absorption in the wing scales of pierid butterflies
  PROCEEDINGS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY B-BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES 274 (1608): 359-366 FEB 7 2007
  Copyright (2007) The Royal Society. The article above may also be found on the journal's website

• Vukusic P, Hallam B, Noyes J
  Brilliant whiteness in ultrathin beetle scales
  SCIENCE 315 (5810): 348-348 JAN 19 2007
  Copyright (2007) AAAS. The article above may also be found on the journal's website.
  

• Vukusic P
  Manipulating the flow of light with photonic crystals
  PHYSICS TODAY 59 (10): 82-83 OCT 2006
  

• Vukusic P
  Structural colour in Lepidoptera
  CURRENT BIOLOGY 16 (16): R621-R623 AUG 22 2006
  Copyright (2006) American Chemical Society. The article above may also be found on the journal's website.
  

• Hooper IR, Vukusic P, Wootton RJ
  Detailed optical study of the transparent wing membranes of the dragonfly Aeshna cyanea
  OPTICS EXPRESS 14 (11): 4891-4897 MAY 29 2006
  Copyright (2006) Optical Society of America. The article above may also be found on the journal's website.
  

• Kemp DJ, Vukusic P, Rutowski RL
  Stress-mediated covariance between nano-structural architecture and ultraviolet butterfly coloration
  FUNCTIONAL ECOLOGY 20 (2): 282-289 APR 2006
  Copyright (2006) British Ecological Society. The article above may also be found on the journal's website.
  

• Vukusic P, Hooper I
  Directionally controlled fluorescence emission in butterflies
  SCIENCE 310 (5751): 1151-1151 NOV 18 2005
  Copyright (2005) AAAS. The article above may also be found on the journal's website.

• Vukusic P
  Natural photonics
  PHYSICS WORLD 17 (2): 35-39 FEB 2004
  Copyright (2004) IOP Publishing Ltd.

• Vukusic P, Wootton RJ, Sambles JR
  Remarkable iridescence in the hindwings of the damselfly Neurobasis chinensis chinensis (Linnaeus) (Zygoptera : Calopterygidae)
  PROCEEDINGS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY OF LONDON SERIES B-BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES 271 (1539): 595-601 MAR 22 2004
  Copyright (2004) The Royal Society.

• Vukusic P, Sambles JR, Lawrence CR
  Structurally assisted blackness in butterfly scales
  PROCEEDINGS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY OF LONDON SERIES B-BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES 271: S237-S239 Suppl. 4 MAY 7 2004
  Copyright (2004) The Royal Society. The article above may also be found on the journal's website.

• Vukusic P, Sambles JR
  Photonic structures in biology
  NATURE 424 (6950): 852-855 AUG 14 2003
  Copyright (2003) Nature Publishing Group. The article above may also be found on the journal's website.

• Lawrence C.R., Vukusic P., and Sambles J.R.
  Grazing incidence iridescence from a butterfly wing
  Applied Optics , 41, 437-441, 2002.


• Vukusic P., Sambles J.R., and Lawrence C.R.,
  Limited-view iridescence in the butterfly Ancyluris meliboeus
  Proc. Roy. Soc. Lond. B., , 269, 7-14, 2002


• Vukusic P., Sambles J.R., Lawrence C.R., and Wakely, G
  Sculpted-multilayer optical effects in two species of Papilio butterfly
  Applied Optics 40, 1116-1125, 2001.


• Vukusic P., Sambles J.R., Lawrence C.R., and Wootton, R.J
  Structural Colour: Now you see it – Now you don’t
  Nature 410, 36, 2001.


• Vukusic P., Sambles J.R., and Lawrence C.R.
  Structural Colour: Colour Mixing in the wing scales of a butterfly
  Nature 404, 457, 2000.


• Vukusic P., Sambles J.R. and Ghiradella H.
  Optical classification of microstructure in butterfly wing scales
  Photonics Science News 6, 61-66, 2000.


• Vukusic P., Sambles J.R., Lawrence C.R. and Wakely G.
  Sculpted-multilayer optical effects in two species of Papilio butterfly
  Applied Optics 40, 1117-1125, 2000.


• Vukusic P., and Sambles J.R.
  Colour Effects in Bright Butterflies,
  J. Soc. Dyers Colourist 9, 252-258, 2000.


• Vukusic P., Sambles J.R., Lawrence C.R., and Wootton, R.J.
  Quantified interference and diffraction in single Morpho butterfly scales
  Proc. Roy. Soc. Lond. B 266, 1403-11. 1999.


• Vukusic P.
  Bright Butterflies
  Physics Review (Philip Allan Publishers), 8, 2-7, 1998.