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METALS11 pages
PLASTICS8 pages
CRYSTALS7 pages
GLASS6 pages
LIQUIDS4 pages
MISCELLANEOUS3 pages

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Lightsmith Materials

An open database of optical constants and the materials service of Lightsmith, the open photonics suite. Site and API code: MIT.

Data: the refractiveindex.info database (CC0 1.0) by M. N. Polyanskiy, imported unchanged; cite it as M. N. Polyanskiy, Sci. Data 11, 94 (2024), doi:10.1038/s41597-023-02898-2. Each dataset also lists its own source. Lightsmith Materials is not affiliated with refractiveindex.info.

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