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Optical constants

Refractive index of Leica Type F

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
3.95657e-06
Permittivity ε1
—
Permittivity ε2
—
Absorption coefficient α
0.32927 cm⁻¹
Penetration depth δ = λ/(2πk)
6.07405e+07 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
Leica Type F, Wang et al. 2017: k 1.2–1.9 µm: n and k versus wavelength
λ (µm)k
1.21.09904e-05
1.2029.97537e-06
1.2049.75665e-06
1.2069.18168e-06
1.2088.76163e-06
1.218.17934e-06
1.2127.75981e-06
1.2147.21838e-06
1.2166.8793e-06
1.2186.48518e-06
1.226.22574e-06
1.2225.69109e-06
1.2245.32852e-06
1.2264.66512e-06
1.2284.76459e-06
1.234.16197e-06
1.2323.92422e-06
1.2343.75531e-06
1.2363.7312e-06
1.2383.27598e-06
1.243.29262e-06
1.2423.06468e-06
1.2442.89103e-06
1.2462.63312e-06
1.2482.5002e-06
1.252.43547e-06
1.2522.51777e-06
1.2542.20007e-06
1.2562.34361e-06
1.2582.17065e-06
1.261.92203e-06
1.2621.85569e-06
1.2641.88951e-06
1.2661.90025e-06
1.2681.62062e-06
1.271.88685e-06
1.2721.43534e-06
1.2741.30924e-06
1.2761.47295e-06
1.2781.32108e-06
1.281.20785e-06
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1.291.12674e-06
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1.31.42327e-06
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