It is a dimensionless number that depends on the temperature of the medium and the wavelength of the light beam. In simple words, the index of refraction describes how fast a light beam travels through a medium compared to a vacuum. This relationship is described by the formula: n = c ...
Some typical refractive indices for yellow light (wavelength equal to 589 nanometres [10−9metre]) are the following:air, 1.0003;water, 1.333;crown glass, 1.517;denseflint glass, 1.655; anddiamond, 2.417. The variation of refractive index with wavelength is the source ofchromatic aberrationinle...
Zernike coefficients at any wavelength in a certain range can be calculated by the Conrady formula at three other wavelengths. The transmitted wavefront at a specific wavelength can be fitted. Finally, we verify different kinds of optical systems by this method. The result shows the method is ...
The wavelength-dependent refractive index of a transparent optical material can often be described analytically with a Sellmeier formula, which contains several empirically obtained parameters. Extended versions of such equations also describe the temperature dependence; such an equation has been used for ...
Cauchy had introduced an empirical formula for the refraction index of a medium, and its relation to wavelength of the incident light, as [6]n=A+Bλ2+Cλ4+⋯,where A, B and C are constants to be determined from the experiment. This formula works quite well for visible light. More ...
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A Sellmeier formula is an equation for calculating the wavelength-dependent refractive index of a medium.
Wavelength (nm)Refractive indexColour Real partImaginary part 4001.344512.11E-10 4251.342351.62E-10 4501.340553.30E-10 4751.339034.31E-10 5001.337728.12E-10 5251.336591.74E-09 5501.335602.47E-09 5751.334723.53E-09 6001.333931.06E-08 6251.333221.41E-08 ...
The results were fitted with the standard formula:n2=A+[Bλ2/(λ2−c2)] wherenis the refractive index and λ is the wavelength in microns. For ZnSe the best values of the parameters areA=4.00,B=1.90, andc2=0.113; for ZnTe,A=4.27,B=3.01, andc2=0.142; and for CdTe,A=5.68,B=...
a non-zero imaginary part of the particle RI. For a single non-absorbing particle with size somewhat larger than the wavelength, the extinction cross section as a function of wavelengthCext(λ) oscillates around the value of 2πR2, whereRis the particle radius, i. e., two times the geom...