Borrowing from brightly-colored birds: Physicists develop lasers inspired by nature

Researchers at Yale University are studying how two types of nanoscale structures on the feathers of birds produce brilliant and distinctive colors. The researchers are hoping that by borrowing these nanoscale tricks from nature they will be able to produce new types of lasers—ones that can assemble themselves by natural processes.

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Borrowing from brightly-colored birds: Physicists develop lasers inspired by nature