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Shedding light on the optical properties of spider silk fiber

Luc Thévenaz
2015
Conference Papers

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.

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