Optical properties of spherulite opals

Venkata Jayasurya Yallapragada, Dan Oron

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Abstract

Spherulites are birefringent structures with spherical symmetry, typically observed in crystallized polymers. We compute the band structure of opals made of close-packed assemblies of highly birefringent spherulites. We demonstrate that spherulitic birefringence of constituent spheres does not affect the symmetries of an opal, yet significantly affects the dispersion of eigenmodes, leading to new pseudogaps in sections of the band structure and, consequently, enhanced reflectivity.

Original languageEnglish
Pages (from-to)5860-5863
Number of pages4
JournalOptics Letters
Volume44
Issue number23
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - Jan 1 2019

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Optical properties of spherulite opals. / Yallapragada, Venkata Jayasurya; Oron, Dan.

In: Optics Letters, Vol. 44, No. 23, 01.01.2019, p. 5860-5863.

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Yallapragada, VJ & Oron, D 2019, 'Optical properties of spherulite opals', Optics Letters, vol. 44, no. 23, pp. 5860-5863. https://doi.org/10.1364/OL.44.005860
Yallapragada VJ, Oron D. Optical properties of spherulite opals. Optics Letters. 2019 Jan 1;44(23):5860-5863. https://doi.org/10.1364/OL.44.005860
Yallapragada, Venkata Jayasurya ; Oron, Dan. / Optical properties of spherulite opals. In: Optics Letters. 2019 ; Vol. 44, No. 23. pp. 5860-5863.
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