Fig. 10From: Investigating the potential of the Nd:YAG and Er:YAG lasers for the cleaning of feathers: a pilot studySEM image showing a section of a pigeon feather irradiated using the Er:YAG laser at a fluence of 1.3 J/cm2. Most of the barbules were burnt and the barbs damaged. © The Trustees of the British Museum. Shared under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International (CC BY-NC-SA 4.0) licence.Back to article page