{"id":221627,"date":"2025-09-10T03:04:51","date_gmt":"2025-09-10T08:04:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/09\/butterfly-wings-inspire-solution-to-impossible-optics-problem"},"modified":"2025-09-10T03:04:51","modified_gmt":"2025-09-10T08:04:51","slug":"butterfly-wings-inspire-solution-to-impossible-optics-problem","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/09\/butterfly-wings-inspire-solution-to-impossible-optics-problem","title":{"rendered":"Butterfly wings inspire solution to impossible optics problem"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/butterfly-wings-inspire-solution-to-impossible-optics-problem2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The iridescent blue of butterfly wings has inspired researchers to find a solution to a challenge previously considered insurmountable\u2014dynamically tuning advanced optical processes at visible wavelengths.<\/p>\n<p>The result is a patterned layer of material a fraction of the thickness of a hair, that could underpin radical new optical technology: applications of the technology are diverse, ranging from adaptive camouflage, through biosensing to quantum light engines for on-chip computing and secure communications.<\/p>\n<p>The research is published in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.science.org\/doi\/10.1126\/sciadv.ady2108\" target=\"_blank\"><i>Science Advances<\/i><\/a>. The first author is Dr. Mudassar Nauman, from the ARC Center of Excellence for Transformative Meta-Optical Systems (TMOS) and BluGlass Ltd.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The iridescent blue of butterfly wings has inspired researchers to find a solution to a challenge previously considered insurmountable\u2014dynamically tuning advanced optical processes at visible wavelengths. The result is a patterned layer of material a fraction of the thickness of a hair, that could underpin radical new optical technology: applications of the technology are diverse, [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":396,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1523,1635],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-221627","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-computing","category-materials"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/221627","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/396"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=221627"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/221627\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=221627"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=221627"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=221627"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}