The Simulation of Light Propagation in Biologically Inspired Micro-Waveguide |
| M. Dośpiał, K.M. Gruszka
Department of Physics, Czestochowa University of Technology, Ave. Armii Krajowej 19, 42-200 Czestochowa, Poland |
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| Bee's eye has thousands of integrated optical units called ommatidia. Each ommatidium consists of a light-diffracting facet lens, a crystalline cone, and photoreceptor cells with a wave-guiding rhabdom. The presented work shows the simulation of propagation of light in a biologically inspired micro-waveguide based on the structure of the bee's sensory elements in compound eyes. The propagation was analyzed using the Meep software package for electromagnetics simulation via the finite-difference time-domain method. The transmittance spectra were obtained by the Fourier transform of the response to the short pulse. |
DOI:10.12693/APhysPolA.142.35 topics: finite-difference time-domain (FDTD), waveguide, EM propagation, optical sensors |