• DocumentCode
    3688092
  • Title

    Shedding light on the optical properties of spider silk fiber

  • Author

    Desmond M. Chow;Kenny Hey Tow;Fritz Vollrath;Isabelle Dicaire;Tom Gheysens;Luc Thévenaz

  • Author_Institution
    EPFL Swiss Federal Institute of Technology, Group for Fibre Optics, SCI-STI-LT, Station 11, CH-1015 Lausanne, Switzerland
  • fYear
    2015
  • Firstpage
    333
  • Lastpage
    334
  • Abstract
    Optical characterisation of a Nephila edulis spider dragline silk is performed. The silk fiber transmits light up to 1400 nm with a propagation loss of ~9 dB/cm and birefringence of 8×10-3 measured at 1302 nm.
  • Keywords
    "Optical fiber polarization","Wavelength measurement","Biomedical optical imaging","Optical polarization"
  • Publisher
    ieee
  • Conference_Titel
    Photonics Conference (IPC), 2015
  • ISSN
    1092-8081
  • Type

    conf

  • DOI
    10.1109/IPCon.2015.7323526
  • Filename
    7323526
    • Link To Document
    https://search.isc.ac/dl/search/defaultta.aspx?DTC=49&DC=3688092