Optical constants

Refractive index of CCl₄ (Carbon tetrachloride)

Moutzouris et al. 2013: n 0.450–1.55 µm

Data: formula 3
Range: 0.45–1.551 µm
Temperature: 300 K
Licence: CC0-1.0

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At one wavelength

Refractive index n: 1.45697
Extinction coefficient k: 0

Permittivity ε₁: 2.12277
Permittivity ε₂: 0

Absorption coefficient α: 0 cm⁻¹
Penetration depth δ = λ/(2πk): — nm

Abbe number V_d: 49.486
Chromatic dispersion dn/dλ: -0.0462631 µm⁻¹

Group index n_g: 1.48416
Group velocity dispersion: 96.2266 fs²/mm

Dispersion parameter D: -524.967 ps/(nm·km)
Photon energy: 2.11001 eV

ε = (n + ik)², α = 4πk/λ, n_g = 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

# CCl4 (Carbon tetrachloride): Moutzouris et al. 2013: n 0.450–1.55 µm
ccl4 = ls.fetch_refractiveindex("organic", "carbon_tetrachloride", "Moutzouris", ref="c5c2f188e848453def5970e347399d653df2ffc2")
print(ccl4.range_nm)  # (450, 1551) nm
eps = ccl4.eps([633])  # complex permittivity

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

import json, urllib.request
import lightsmith as ls

url = "https://materials.lightsmith.dev/v1/datasets/ds_73c8ff2cc555/lightsmith"
ccl4 = ls.Tabulated.model_validate(json.load(urllib.request.urlopen(url)))
print(ccl4.source)  # citation and provenance travel with the data

Any dataset here, as the library's Tabulated material (carbon-tetrachloride/moutzouris-2013).

# ... load ccl4 as above, then:
sim = ls.Simulation(
    particles=[ls.Particle(shape=ls.Sphere(radius_nm=50), material=ccl4)],
    medium_index=1.0,
    wavelengths=ls.WavelengthRange(start_nm=450, stop_nm=1000, num=81),
)
res = ls.solve(sim)  # exact Mie for a sphere
print(res.q_ext)     # extinction efficiency at each wavelength

Same spec runs with DDA, FDTD, BEM or T-matrix: ls.compare(sim, ["mie", "dda"]).

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Dispersion formula

Polynomial (formula 3), λ in µm

n^{2} = 2.085608282 + 0.00053373 λ^{2.0} + 0.012201206 λ^{- 2.0} + 5.6451 \times 10^{-5} λ^{- 4.0} + 4.8106 \times 10^{-5} λ^{- 6.0}

Valid from 0.45 to 1.551 µm.

Coefficients as stored

C_i	Value
C1	2.085608282
C2	0.00053373
C3	2.0
C4	0.012201206
C5	-2.0
C6	5.6451e-05
C7	-4.0
C8	4.8106e-05
C9	-6.0

Comments and conditions

300 K (27 °C).

Conditions

temperature: 300 K

References

K. Moutzouris, M. Papamichael, S. C. Betsis, I. Stavrakas, G. Hloupis, D. Triantis. Refractive, dispersive and thermo-optic properties of twelve organic solvents in the visible and near-infrared. Appl. Phys. B 116, 617-622 (2013)

doi:10.1007/s00340-013-5744-3 Refractive, dispersive and thermo-optic properties of twelve organic solvents in the visible and near-infrared, Applied Physics B (2013)

Cite

Konstantinos Moutzouris et al.. Refractive, dispersive and thermo-optic properties of twelve organic solvents in the visible and near-infrared. Applied Physics B, 116, 617-622 (2013), doi:10.1007/s00340-013-5744-3; Data from the refractiveindex.info database (M. N. Polyanskiy, Sci. Data 11, 94 (2024), doi:10.1038/s41597-023-02898-2)

Data

Computed on 400 wavelengths, the same grid as the API and the library

CSV comma separated TXT tab separated YAML n, k Full database record original YAML All quantities CSV JSON metadata

CCl4 (Carbon tetrachloride), Moutzouris et al. 2013: n 0.450–1.55 µm: n and k versus wavelength
λ (µm)	n
0.45	1.467358
0.451398	1.467189
0.4528	1.467022
0.454206	1.466856
0.455617	1.466691
0.457032	1.466528
0.458452	1.466367
0.459876	1.466207
0.461304	1.466048
0.462737	1.465891
0.464174	1.465735
0.465616	1.46558
0.467062	1.465427
0.468513	1.465275
0.469968	1.465124
0.471428	1.464975
0.472892	1.464827
0.474361	1.46468
0.475835	1.464535
0.477313	1.464391
0.478795	1.464248
0.480282	1.464106
0.481774	1.463965
0.483271	1.463826
0.484772	1.463688
0.486277	1.463551
0.487788	1.463415
0.489303	1.46328
0.490823	1.463146
0.492347	1.463014
0.493877	1.462882
0.495411	1.462752
0.496949	1.462623
0.498493	1.462495
0.500041	1.462367
0.501595	1.462241
0.503153	1.462116
0.504715	1.461992
0.506283	1.461869
0.507856	1.461747
0.509433	1.461626
0.511015	1.461506
0.512603	1.461387
0.514195	1.461269
0.515792	1.461152
0.517394	1.461036
0.519001	1.46092
0.520613	1.460806
0.52223	1.460692
0.523852	1.46058
0.52548	1.460468
0.527112	1.460357
0.528749	1.460248
0.530391	1.460139
0.532039	1.46003
0.533691	1.459923
0.535349	1.459817
0.537012	1.459711
0.53868	1.459606
0.540353	1.459502
0.542031	1.459399
0.543715	1.459297
0.545404	1.459195
0.547098	1.459094
0.548797	1.458994
0.550502	1.458895
0.552212	1.458796
0.553927	1.458699
0.555647	1.458602
0.557373	1.458505
0.559105	1.45841
0.560841	1.458315
0.562583	1.458221
0.564331	1.458128
0.566084	1.458035
0.567842	1.457943
0.569606	1.457852
0.571375	1.457761
0.57315	1.457671
0.57493	1.457582
0.576716	1.457494
0.578507	1.457406
0.580304	1.457319
0.582106	1.457232
0.583914	1.457146
0.585728	1.457061
0.587547	1.456976
0.589372	1.456892
0.591203	1.456809
0.593039	1.456726
0.594881	1.456644
0.596729	1.456562
0.598583	1.456481
0.600442	1.456401
0.602307	1.456321
0.604178	1.456242
0.606054	1.456163
0.607937	1.456085
0.609825	1.456008
0.611719	1.455931
0.613619	1.455855
0.615525	1.455779
0.617437	1.455704
0.619355	1.455629
0.621279	1.455555
0.623209	1.455481
0.625144	1.455408
0.627086	1.455336
0.629034	1.455264
0.630988	1.455192
0.632948	1.455121
0.634914	1.455051
0.636886	1.454981
0.638864	1.454911
0.640848	1.454842
0.642839	1.454774
0.644835	1.454706
0.646838	1.454638
0.648847	1.454571
0.650863	1.454505
0.652885	1.454439
0.654912	1.454373
0.656947	1.454308
0.658987	1.454243
0.661034	1.454179
0.663087	1.454115
0.665147	1.454052
0.667213	1.453989
0.669285	1.453926
0.671364	1.453864
0.673449	1.453803
0.675541	1.453742
0.67764	1.453681
0.679744	1.453621
0.681856	1.453561
0.683974	1.453502
0.686098	1.453443
0.688229	1.453384
0.690367	1.453326
0.692511	1.453268
0.694662	1.453211
0.69682	1.453154
0.698984	1.453097
0.701155	1.453041
0.703333	1.452985
0.705518	1.45293
0.707709	1.452875
0.709907	1.45282
0.712112	1.452766
0.714324	1.452712
0.716543	1.452658
0.718769	1.452605
0.721001	1.452552
0.723241	1.4525
0.725487	1.452448
0.727741	1.452396
0.730001	1.452345
0.732269	1.452294
0.734543	1.452243
0.736825	1.452193
0.739113	1.452143
0.741409	1.452093
0.743712	1.452044
0.746022	1.451995
0.748339	1.451946
0.750664	1.451898
0.752995	1.45185
0.755334	1.451803
0.75768	1.451755
0.760034	1.451708
0.762394	1.451662
0.764762	1.451616
0.767138	1.45157
0.769521	1.451524
0.771911	1.451478
0.774308	1.451433
0.776713	1.451389
0.779126	1.451344
0.781546	1.4513
0.783974	1.451256
0.786409	1.451213
0.788851	1.451169
0.791302	1.451127
0.793759	1.451084
0.796225	1.451042
0.798698	1.450999
0.801179	1.450958
0.803667	1.450916
0.806164	1.450875
0.808668	1.450834
0.811179	1.450793
0.813699	1.450753
0.816226	1.450713
0.818762	1.450673
0.821305	1.450633
0.823856	1.450594
0.826415	1.450555
0.828982	1.450516
0.831557	1.450478
0.83414	1.45044
0.83673	1.450402
0.839329	1.450364
0.841936	1.450326
0.844552	1.450289
0.847175	1.450252
0.849806	1.450215
0.852446	1.450179
0.855094	1.450143
0.85775	1.450107
0.860414	1.450071
0.863086	1.450036
0.865767	1.45
0.868456	1.449965
0.871154	1.449931
0.87386	1.449896
0.876574	1.449862
0.879297	1.449828
0.882028	1.449794
0.884768	1.44976
0.887516	1.449727
0.890272	1.449694
0.893038	1.449661
0.895811	1.449628
0.898594	1.449596
0.901385	1.449563
0.904185	1.449531
0.906993	1.4495
0.909811	1.449468
0.912636	1.449437
0.915471	1.449405
0.918315	1.449374
0.921167	1.449344
0.924028	1.449313
0.926898	1.449283
0.929777	1.449253
0.932665	1.449223
0.935562	1.449193
0.938468	1.449164
0.941383	1.449134
0.944307	1.449105
0.94724	1.449076
0.950183	1.449048
0.953134	1.449019
0.956094	1.448991
0.959064	1.448963
0.962043	1.448935
0.965031	1.448907
0.968029	1.448879
0.971036	1.448852
0.974052	1.448825
0.977077	1.448798
0.980112	1.448771
0.983156	1.448745
0.98621	1.448718
0.989273	1.448692
0.992346	1.448666
0.995428	1.44864
0.99852	1.448614
1.00162	1.448589
1.00473	1.448563
1.00785	1.448538
1.01098	1.448513
1.01412	1.448488
1.01727	1.448464
1.02043	1.448439
1.0236	1.448415
1.02678	1.448391
1.02997	1.448367
1.03317	1.448343
1.03638	1.448319
1.0396	1.448296
1.04283	1.448273
1.04607	1.448249
1.04932	1.448226
1.05258	1.448204
1.05585	1.448181
1.05913	1.448158
1.06242	1.448136
1.06572	1.448114
1.06903	1.448092
1.07235	1.44807
1.07568	1.448048
1.07902	1.448027
1.08237	1.448005
1.08573	1.447984
1.0891	1.447963
1.09249	1.447942
1.09588	1.447921
1.09928	1.447901
1.1027	1.44788
1.10612	1.44786
1.10956	1.447839
1.11301	1.447819
1.11646	1.447799
1.11993	1.44778
1.12341	1.44776
1.1269	1.447741
1.1304	1.447721
1.13391	1.447702
1.13743	1.447683
1.14096	1.447664
1.14451	1.447645
1.14806	1.447626
1.15163	1.447608
1.15521	1.44759
1.15879	1.447571
1.16239	1.447553
1.166	1.447535
1.16963	1.447517
1.17326	1.4475
1.1769	1.447482
1.18056	1.447464
1.18423	1.447447
1.1879	1.44743
1.19159	1.447413
1.1953	1.447396
1.19901	1.447379
1.20273	1.447362
1.20647	1.447346
1.21022	1.447329
1.21397	1.447313
1.21774	1.447297
1.22153	1.447281
1.22532	1.447265
1.22913	1.447249
1.23295	1.447233
1.23677	1.447218
1.24062	1.447202
1.24447	1.447187
1.24834	1.447172
1.25221	1.447156
1.2561	1.447141
1.26	1.447127
1.26392	1.447112
1.26784	1.447097
1.27178	1.447083
1.27573	1.447068
1.27969	1.447054
1.28367	1.44704
1.28766	1.447026
1.29166	1.447012
1.29567	1.446998
1.29969	1.446984
1.30373	1.44697
1.30778	1.446957
1.31184	1.446943
1.31592	1.44693
1.32	1.446917
1.3241	1.446904
1.32822	1.446891
1.33234	1.446878
1.33648	1.446865
1.34063	1.446852
1.34479	1.44684
1.34897	1.446827
1.35316	1.446815
1.35736	1.446803
1.36158	1.446791
1.36581	1.446779
1.37005	1.446767
1.37431	1.446755
1.37858	1.446743
1.38286	1.446731
1.38715	1.44672
1.39146	1.446708
1.39578	1.446697
1.40012	1.446686
1.40447	1.446675
1.40883	1.446664
1.41321	1.446653
1.4176	1.446642
1.422	1.446631
1.42642	1.44662
1.43085	1.44661
1.43529	1.446599
1.43975	1.446589
1.44422	1.446579
1.44871	1.446568
1.45321	1.446558
1.45772	1.446548
1.46225	1.446538
1.46679	1.446529
1.47135	1.446519
1.47592	1.446509
1.4805	1.4465
1.4851	1.44649
1.48971	1.446481
1.49434	1.446471
1.49898	1.446462
1.50364	1.446453
1.50831	1.446444
1.51299	1.446435
1.51769	1.446426
1.52241	1.446418
1.52714	1.446409
1.53188	1.4464
1.53664	1.446392
1.54141	1.446384
1.5462	1.446375
1.551	1.446367

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About CCl4 (Carbon tetrachloride)

Carbon Tetrachloride (CCl₄), also known as tetrachloromethane, is a colorless, dense, and non-flammable liquid with a sweet, characteristic odor. Historically, it was widely used as a cleaning agent, refrigerant, and in fire extinguishers, but due to its harmful environmental and health effects, many of these applications have been phased out. Carbon tetrachloride is a potent liver toxin when ingested and can lead to severe liver damage or even death in high doses. It's also a confirmed carcinogen and can cause harm to the central nervous system. In the environment, carbon tetrachloride can deplete the ozone layer when released into the atmosphere. Due to these concerns, its production and usage in many consumer applications have been restricted under various international agreements. In industry, carbon tetrachloride is used in the production of chlorofluorocarbons (CFCs) and as a feedstock in certain chemical manufacturing processes. It's also utilized as a solvent in laboratories and in the manufacturing of pharmaceuticals and agrochemicals.

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Provenance

Version: 1 (snapshot c5c2f18)
Source page: refractiveindex.info
Original file: database/data/organic/CCl4 - carbon tetrachloride/nk/Moutzouris.yml
ID: ds_73c8ff2cc555
API: /v1/datasets/ds_73c8ff2cc555

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