Optical constants

Refractive index of AMTIR-1 (AMI)

AMTIR-1: n,k 1–14 µm

Data
tabulated nk
Range
1–14 µm
Points
17
Licence
CC0-1.0

Plot

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At one wavelength

Range 1–14 µm
Refractive index n
2.5158
Extinction coefficient k
2.97619e-07
Permittivity ε1
6.32923
Permittivity ε2
1.49750e-06
Absorption coefficient α
0.00999998 cm⁻¹
Penetration depth δ = λ/(2πk)
2.00000e+09 nm
Abbe number Vd
—
Chromatic dispersion dn/dλ
-0.0046 µm⁻¹
Group index ng
2.533
Group velocity dispersion
— fs²/mm
Dispersion parameter D
— ps/(nm·km)
Photon energy
0.331509 eV

ε = (n + ik)², α = 4πk/λ, ng = n − λ dn/dλ, GVD = λ³/(2πc²) d²n/dλ², D = −(λ/c) d²n/dλ². Group-velocity dispersion is given for formula data only.

Use it in Lightsmith

Load this data in Python, simulate in one more line

pip install lightsmith
import lightsmith as ls

# AMTIR-1 (AMI): AMTIR-1
ami_amtir_1 = ls.fetch_refractiveindex("specs", "AMI-infrared", "AMTIR-1", ref="c5c2f188e848453def5970e347399d653df2ffc2")
print(ami_amtir_1.range_nm)  # (1000, 14000) nm
eps = ami_amtir_1.eps([3740])  # complex permittivity

Downloads the original record once (pinned to the imported snapshot) and caches it.

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References

Cite

Amorphous Materials AMTIR-1 Information (2012) - downloaded 2014-01-11; Data from the refractiveindex.info database (M. N. Polyanskiy, Sci. Data 11, 94 (2024), doi:10.1038/s41597-023-02898-2)

Data

17 rows as published
AMTIR-1 (AMI), AMTIR-1: n and k versus wavelength
λ (µm)nk
1.02.59775.4908e-07
1.0642.58625.5882e-07
1.52.54663.581e-07
2.02.53064.7746e-07
2.42.5251.9099e-07
3.02.51922.3873e-07
4.02.51463.1831e-07
5.02.51177.9577e-07
6.02.50924.7746e-07
7.02.50685.5704e-07
8.02.50426.3662e-07
9.02.50137.162e-07
10.02.49817.9577e-07
11.02.49462.6261e-06
12.02.49051.4324e-05
13.02.4861.5518e-05
14.02.48251.4483e-05

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Rs
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