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Refractive index of C3H5(OH)3 (Glycerol)

Wang et al. 2017: k 1.2–1.9 µm

Data
tabulated k
Range
1.2–1.9 µm
Points
351
Temperature
295 K
Licence
CC0-1.0

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At one wavelength

Range 1.2–1.9 µm
Refractive index n
—
Extinction coefficient k
0.000130911
Permittivity ε1
—
Permittivity ε2
—
Absorption coefficient α
10.8945 cm⁻¹
Penetration depth δ = λ/(2πk)
1.83578e+06 nm
Abbe number Vd
—
Chromatic dispersion dn/dλ
— µm⁻¹
Group index ng
—
Group velocity dispersion
— fs²/mm
Dispersion parameter D
— ps/(nm·km)
Photon energy
0.821087 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.

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Comments and conditions

22 °C.

Conditions

temperature
295 K
Notes on the source data (kept exactly as published):
  • the source gives k only; n is not available

References

K. Wang, W. Wen, Y. Wang, K. Wang, J. He, J. Wang, P. Zhai, Y. Yang, P. Qiu. Order-of-magnitude multiphoton signal enhancement based on characterization of absorption spectra of immersion oils at the 1700-nm window. Opt. Express 25, 5909-5916 (2017)
  • doi:10.1364/oe.25.005909 Order-of-magnitude multiphoton signal enhancement based on characterization of absorption spectra of immersion oils at the 1700-nm window, Optics Express (2017)

Cite

Ke Wang et al.. Order-of-magnitude multiphoton signal enhancement based on characterization of absorption spectra of immersion oils at the 1700-nm window. Optics Express, 25, 5909 (2017), doi:10.1364/oe.25.005909; Data from the refractiveindex.info database (M. N. Polyanskiy, Sci. Data 11, 94 (2024), doi:10.1038/s41597-023-02898-2)

Data

351 rows as published
CSV comma separated TXT tab separated YAML n, k Full database record original YAML All quantities CSV JSON metadata
C3H5(OH)3 (Glycerol), Wang et al. 2017: k 1.2–1.9 µm: n and k versus wavelength
λ (µm)k
1.29.39393e-06
1.2021.05263e-05
1.2049.92241e-06
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1.2169.80164e-06
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1.229.07828e-06
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1.2247.88661e-06
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1.2587.17497e-06
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1.276.05259e-06
1.2725.82141e-06
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1.285.49459e-06
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