Optical constants

Refractive index of H2O, D2O (Water, heavy water, ice)

Afsar and Hasted 1977: Heavy water; n,k 250–2000 µm

Data
tabulated nk
Range
250–2000 µm
Points
8
Temperature
292.65 K
Licence
CC0-1.0

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At one wavelength

Range 250–2000 µm
Refractive index n
2.29814
Extinction coefficient k
0.745336
Permittivity ε1
4.72591
Permittivity ε2
3.42577
Absorption coefficient α
132.478 cm⁻¹
Penetration depth δ = λ/(2πk)
150969 nm
Abbe number Vd
—
Chromatic dispersion dn/dλ
0.000450045 µm⁻¹
Group index ng
1.97995
Group velocity dispersion
— fs²/mm
Dispersion parameter D
— ps/(nm·km)
Photon energy
0.00175367 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

# H2O, D2O (Water, heavy water, ice): Afsar and Hasted 1977: Heavy water; n,k 250–2000 µm
h2o_d2o = ls.fetch_refractiveindex("main", "H2O", "Asfar-D2O", ref="c5c2f188e848453def5970e347399d653df2ffc2")
print(h2o_d2o.range_nm)  # (250000, 2e+06) nm
eps = h2o_d2o.eps([707000])  # complex permittivity

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Comments and conditions

Heavy water (D2O) at 19.5 °C

Conditions

temperature
292.65 K

References

M. N. Afsar and J. B. Hasted. Measurements of the optical constants of liquid H2O and D2O between 6 and 450 cm−1. J. Opt. Soc. Am. 67, 902-904 (1977)
  • doi:10.1364/josa.67.000902 Measurements of the optical constants of liquid H_2O and D_2O between 6 and 450 cm^−1, Journal of the Optical Society of America (1977)

Cite

M. N. Afsar and J. B. Hasted. Measurements of the optical constants of liquid H_2O and D_2O between 6 and 450 cm^−1. Journal of the Optical Society of America, 67, 902 (1977), doi:10.1364/josa.67.000902; Data from the refractiveindex.info database (M. N. Polyanskiy, Sci. Data 11, 94 (2024), doi:10.1038/s41597-023-02898-2)

Data

8 rows as published
H2O, D2O (Water, heavy water, ice), Afsar and Hasted 1977: Heavy water; n,k 250–2000 µm: n and k versus wavelength
λ (µm)nk
250.02.020.525
285.72.050.553
333.32.090.557
400.02.140.586
500.02.190.633
666.72.280.722
1000.02.430.915
2000.03.021.146

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