Abstract

Millenia before humans were artificially synthesising various nanostructures, biological systems were using nanometre-scale architectures to produce striking optical effects. Recently, the complex optical properties of various biological structures have been systematically studied and modelled in detail [1] and potential applications, such as surface-enhanced Raman scattering [2], solar cells and light emitting diodes [3] have been explored. However, to our knowledge, these abundant natural nanostructures have never been applied to the field of random lasers.

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