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.
Title
Shedding light on the optical properties of spider silk fiber
Published in
IEEE Photonics Conference (IPC) 2015
Pages
333-334
Conference
IEEE Photonics Conference (IPC) 2015, Reston, VA, USA, 4-8 October 2015
Date
2015
Publisher
IEEE
Record creation date
2015-11-17