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Re: [Phys-l] index of refraction


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From: Paul Lulai
Sent: Monday, May 11, 2009 10:49 AM
Subject: Re: [Phys-l] index of refraction

Curious if there is a more high-falutin college or industrial approach.

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For solids, the most commonly used collection of optical properties (n and k vs. wavelength) of materials is the collection edited by Edward D. Palik, "Handbook of Optical Constants of Solids" volumes I, II, and III.

In industry, a standard method is to use spectroscopic ellipsometry:
http://www.jawoollam.com/

Larry Woolf