Dr. Akhlesh Lakhtakia, Charles Godfrey Binder Professor in Engineering Science and Mechanics, along with collaborators around the world has studied the eyes of the peacock mantis shrimp in relation to resulting in their ability to see circularly polarized light. Dr. Lakhtakia has looked at these eyes in a bid to build a better waveplate. These waveplates are optical devices that alter the polarization state of light that travel through them. This information is important as Lakhtakia notes “optical systems code different information on light of different polarization states.” To read more about this research, please visit this web site.
*Source: msnbc.com