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
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"
Conference_Titel :
Photonics Conference (IPC), 2015
DOI :
10.1109/IPCon.2015.7323526
