Optical constants

Refractive index of C₈H₅KO₄ (Potassium hydrogen phthalate, KHP)

Moutzouris et al. 2011: n(γ) 0.450–1.55 µm

Data: formula 4
Range: 0.45–1.551 µm
Temperature: 277.65 K
Optical axis: gamma
Licence: CC0-1.0

Biaxial crystal, axes: gamma

Axis Log x Log y

Click the plot to set the calculator wavelength.

At one wavelength

Refractive index n: 1.49754
Extinction coefficient k: 0

Permittivity ε₁: 2.24263
Permittivity ε₂: 0

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

Abbe number V_d: 39.023
Chromatic dispersion dn/dλ: -0.0642218 µm⁻¹

Group index n_g: 1.53528
Group velocity dispersion: 128.817 fs²/mm

Dispersion parameter D: -702.763 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

# C8H5KO4 (Potassium hydrogen phthalate, KHP): Moutzouris et al. 2011: n(γ) 0.450–1.55 µm
c8h5ko4 = ls.fetch_refractiveindex("organic", "potassium_hydrogen_phthalate", "Moutzouris-γ", ref="c5c2f188e848453def5970e347399d653df2ffc2")
print(c8h5ko4.range_nm)  # (450, 1551) nm
eps = c8h5ko4.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_e5ffdd64c0f4/lightsmith"
c8h5ko4 = ls.Tabulated.model_validate(json.load(urllib.request.urlopen(url)))
print(c8h5ko4.source)  # citation and provenance travel with the data

Any dataset here, as the library's Tabulated material (potassium-hydrogen-phthalate/moutzouris-2011-3).

# ... load c8h5ko4 as above, then:
sim = ls.Simulation(
    particles=[ls.Particle(shape=ls.Sphere(radius_nm=50), material=c8h5ko4)],
    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

RefractiveIndex.INFO (formula 4), λ in µm

n^{2} = 2.196073191 + \frac{0.015025722 λ^{0.0}}{λ^{2} - {0.190981743}^{2.0}} - 0.00610078 λ^{2.0}

Valid from 0.45 to 1.551 µm.

Coefficients as stored

C_i	Value
C1	2.196073191
C2	0.015025722
C3	0.0
C4	0.190981743
C5	2.0
C6	0.0
C7	0.0
C8	0.0
C9	1.0
C10	-0.00610078
C11	2.0

Comments and conditions

n_γ; 24.5 °C (see the original publication for temperature-dependent dispersion formula).

Conditions

temperature: 277.65 K
direction: gamma

References

K. Moutzouris, I. Stavrakas, D. Triantis, M. Enculescub. Temperature-dependent refractive index of potassium acid phthalate (KAP) in the visible and near-infrared. Opt. Mater. 33, 812-816 (2011)

doi:10.1016/j.optmat.2010.12.021 Temperature-dependent refractive index of potassium acid phthalate (KAP) in the visible and near-infrared, Optical Materials (2011)

Cite

K. Moutzouris, I. Stavrakas, D. Triantis and M. Enculescu. Temperature-dependent refractive index of potassium acid phthalate (KAP) in the visible and near-infrared. Optical Materials, 33, 812-816 (2011), doi:10.1016/j.optmat.2010.12.021; 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

C8H5KO4 (Potassium hydrogen phthalate, KHP), Moutzouris et al. 2011: n(γ) 0.450–1.55 µm: n and k versus wavelength
λ (µm)	n
0.45	1.511734
0.451398	1.511506
0.4528	1.51128
0.454206	1.511056
0.455617	1.510834
0.457032	1.510613
0.458452	1.510395
0.459876	1.510178
0.461304	1.509963
0.462737	1.509751
0.464174	1.509539
0.465616	1.50933
0.467062	1.509122
0.468513	1.508916
0.469968	1.508712
0.471428	1.508509
0.472892	1.508309
0.474361	1.508109
0.475835	1.507912
0.477313	1.507716
0.478795	1.507521
0.480282	1.507329
0.481774	1.507137
0.483271	1.506948
0.484772	1.50676
0.486277	1.506573
0.487788	1.506388
0.489303	1.506204
0.490823	1.506022
0.492347	1.505842
0.493877	1.505662
0.495411	1.505485
0.496949	1.505308
0.498493	1.505133
0.500041	1.50496
0.501595	1.504787
0.503153	1.504617
0.504715	1.504447
0.506283	1.504279
0.507856	1.504112
0.509433	1.503947
0.511015	1.503782
0.512603	1.503619
0.514195	1.503458
0.515792	1.503297
0.517394	1.503138
0.519001	1.50298
0.520613	1.502823
0.52223	1.502668
0.523852	1.502513
0.52548	1.50236
0.527112	1.502208
0.528749	1.502057
0.530391	1.501908
0.532039	1.501759
0.533691	1.501612
0.535349	1.501465
0.537012	1.50132
0.53868	1.501176
0.540353	1.501033
0.542031	1.500891
0.543715	1.50075
0.545404	1.50061
0.547098	1.500471
0.548797	1.500333
0.550502	1.500196
0.552212	1.500061
0.553927	1.499926
0.555647	1.499792
0.557373	1.499659
0.559105	1.499527
0.560841	1.499397
0.562583	1.499267
0.564331	1.499138
0.566084	1.49901
0.567842	1.498883
0.569606	1.498756
0.571375	1.498631
0.57315	1.498507
0.57493	1.498383
0.576716	1.498261
0.578507	1.498139
0.580304	1.498018
0.582106	1.497898
0.583914	1.497779
0.585728	1.497661
0.587547	1.497543
0.589372	1.497426
0.591203	1.497311
0.593039	1.497196
0.594881	1.497081
0.596729	1.496968
0.598583	1.496855
0.600442	1.496744
0.602307	1.496632
0.604178	1.496522
0.606054	1.496413
0.607937	1.496304
0.609825	1.496196
0.611719	1.496089
0.613619	1.495982
0.615525	1.495876
0.617437	1.495771
0.619355	1.495667
0.621279	1.495563
0.623209	1.49546
0.625144	1.495358
0.627086	1.495256
0.629034	1.495155
0.630988	1.495055
0.632948	1.494955
0.634914	1.494857
0.636886	1.494758
0.638864	1.494661
0.640848	1.494564
0.642839	1.494467
0.644835	1.494372
0.646838	1.494277
0.648847	1.494182
0.650863	1.494088
0.652885	1.493995
0.654912	1.493903
0.656947	1.493811
0.658987	1.493719
0.661034	1.493628
0.663087	1.493538
0.665147	1.493448
0.667213	1.493359
0.669285	1.493271
0.671364	1.493183
0.673449	1.493095
0.675541	1.493009
0.67764	1.492922
0.679744	1.492837
0.681856	1.492751
0.683974	1.492667
0.686098	1.492582
0.688229	1.492499
0.690367	1.492416
0.692511	1.492333
0.694662	1.492251
0.69682	1.492169
0.698984	1.492088
0.701155	1.492008
0.703333	1.491928
0.705518	1.491848
0.707709	1.491769
0.709907	1.49169
0.712112	1.491612
0.714324	1.491534
0.716543	1.491457
0.718769	1.49138
0.721001	1.491304
0.723241	1.491228
0.725487	1.491153
0.727741	1.491078
0.730001	1.491003
0.732269	1.490929
0.734543	1.490855
0.736825	1.490782
0.739113	1.490709
0.741409	1.490637
0.743712	1.490565
0.746022	1.490493
0.748339	1.490422
0.750664	1.490351
0.752995	1.490281
0.755334	1.490211
0.75768	1.490141
0.760034	1.490072
0.762394	1.490003
0.764762	1.489935
0.767138	1.489866
0.769521	1.489799
0.771911	1.489731
0.774308	1.489665
0.776713	1.489598
0.779126	1.489532
0.781546	1.489466
0.783974	1.4894
0.786409	1.489335
0.788851	1.48927
0.791302	1.489206
0.793759	1.489142
0.796225	1.489078
0.798698	1.489014
0.801179	1.488951
0.803667	1.488889
0.806164	1.488826
0.808668	1.488764
0.811179	1.488702
0.813699	1.488641
0.816226	1.488579
0.818762	1.488518
0.821305	1.488458
0.823856	1.488398
0.826415	1.488338
0.828982	1.488278
0.831557	1.488218
0.83414	1.488159
0.83673	1.488101
0.839329	1.488042
0.841936	1.487984
0.844552	1.487926
0.847175	1.487868
0.849806	1.487811
0.852446	1.487753
0.855094	1.487697
0.85775	1.48764
0.860414	1.487584
0.863086	1.487528
0.865767	1.487472
0.868456	1.487416
0.871154	1.487361
0.87386	1.487306
0.876574	1.487251
0.879297	1.487196
0.882028	1.487142
0.884768	1.487088
0.887516	1.487034
0.890272	1.48698
0.893038	1.486927
0.895811	1.486874
0.898594	1.486821
0.901385	1.486768
0.904185	1.486715
0.906993	1.486663
0.909811	1.486611
0.912636	1.486559
0.915471	1.486508
0.918315	1.486456
0.921167	1.486405
0.924028	1.486354
0.926898	1.486303
0.929777	1.486252
0.932665	1.486202
0.935562	1.486152
0.938468	1.486102
0.941383	1.486052
0.944307	1.486002
0.94724	1.485953
0.950183	1.485903
0.953134	1.485854
0.956094	1.485805
0.959064	1.485756
0.962043	1.485708
0.965031	1.485659
0.968029	1.485611
0.971036	1.485563
0.974052	1.485515
0.977077	1.485467
0.980112	1.48542
0.983156	1.485372
0.98621	1.485325
0.989273	1.485278
0.992346	1.485231
0.995428	1.485184
0.99852	1.485137
1.00162	1.485091
1.00473	1.485044
1.00785	1.484998
1.01098	1.484952
1.01412	1.484906
1.01727	1.48486
1.02043	1.484815
1.0236	1.484769
1.02678	1.484724
1.02997	1.484678
1.03317	1.484633
1.03638	1.484588
1.0396	1.484543
1.04283	1.484498
1.04607	1.484454
1.04932	1.484409
1.05258	1.484364
1.05585	1.48432
1.05913	1.484276
1.06242	1.484232
1.06572	1.484188
1.06903	1.484144
1.07235	1.4841
1.07568	1.484056
1.07902	1.484013
1.08237	1.483969
1.08573	1.483926
1.0891	1.483882
1.09249	1.483839
1.09588	1.483796
1.09928	1.483753
1.1027	1.48371
1.10612	1.483667
1.10956	1.483624
1.11301	1.483581
1.11646	1.483538
1.11993	1.483496
1.12341	1.483453
1.1269	1.483411
1.1304	1.483369
1.13391	1.483326
1.13743	1.483284
1.14096	1.483242
1.14451	1.4832
1.14806	1.483158
1.15163	1.483116
1.15521	1.483074
1.15879	1.483032
1.16239	1.48299
1.166	1.482948
1.16963	1.482906
1.17326	1.482865
1.1769	1.482823
1.18056	1.482782
1.18423	1.48274
1.1879	1.482699
1.19159	1.482657
1.1953	1.482616
1.19901	1.482574
1.20273	1.482533
1.20647	1.482492
1.21022	1.48245
1.21397	1.482409
1.21774	1.482368
1.22153	1.482327
1.22532	1.482285
1.22913	1.482244
1.23295	1.482203
1.23677	1.482162
1.24062	1.482121
1.24447	1.48208
1.24834	1.482039
1.25221	1.481998
1.2561	1.481957
1.26	1.481916
1.26392	1.481875
1.26784	1.481834
1.27178	1.481793
1.27573	1.481752
1.27969	1.481711
1.28367	1.48167
1.28766	1.481629
1.29166	1.481588
1.29567	1.481547
1.29969	1.481506
1.30373	1.481465
1.30778	1.481424
1.31184	1.481383
1.31592	1.481342
1.32	1.4813
1.3241	1.481259
1.32822	1.481218
1.33234	1.481177
1.33648	1.481136
1.34063	1.481095
1.34479	1.481054
1.34897	1.481012
1.35316	1.480971
1.35736	1.48093
1.36158	1.480888
1.36581	1.480847
1.37005	1.480806
1.37431	1.480764
1.37858	1.480723
1.38286	1.480681
1.38715	1.48064
1.39146	1.480598
1.39578	1.480556
1.40012	1.480515
1.40447	1.480473
1.40883	1.480431
1.41321	1.480389
1.4176	1.480347
1.422	1.480305
1.42642	1.480263
1.43085	1.480221
1.43529	1.480179
1.43975	1.480137
1.44422	1.480095
1.44871	1.480052
1.45321	1.48001
1.45772	1.479968
1.46225	1.479925
1.46679	1.479882
1.47135	1.47984
1.47592	1.479797
1.4805	1.479754
1.4851	1.479711
1.48971	1.479668
1.49434	1.479625
1.49898	1.479582
1.50364	1.479539
1.50831	1.479495
1.51299	1.479452
1.51769	1.479408
1.52241	1.479365
1.52714	1.479321
1.53188	1.479277
1.53664	1.479233
1.54141	1.479189
1.5462	1.479145
1.551	1.479101

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C₈H₅KO₄ (Potassium hydrogen phthalate, KHP): all datasets

About C8H5KO4 (Potassium hydrogen phthalate, KHP)

Potassium hydrogen phthalate (C₈H₅KO₄) is a white crystalline salt commonly referred to as KHP. Due to its high purity and stability, KHP is frequently utilized as a primary standard for acid-base titrations. This means it has a well-known and stable stoichiometry, which is essential for accurate volumetric analyses. Another key characteristic of KHP is its low hygroscopicity, allowing it to be easily weighed accurately without the worry of moisture absorption skewing the results. In the optics domain, as with many salts, KHP can be utilized to produce specific refractive properties when dissolved in a solvent or integrated within composite materials. Besides its laboratory applications, potassium hydrogen phthalate serves as a buffer solution and can be used in the preparation of certain pharmaceuticals.

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Provenance

Version: 1 (snapshot c5c2f18)
Source page: refractiveindex.info
Original file: database/data/organic/C8H5KO4 - potassium hydrogen phthalate/nk/Moutzouris-gamma.yml
ID: ds_e5ffdd64c0f4
API: /v1/datasets/ds_e5ffdd64c0f4

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