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http://refractiveindex.info/
Posted: Wed Mar 28, 2012 5:49 pm
by polynurb
http://refractiveindex.info/
very cool page..
enjoy,
daniel
Re: http://refractiveindex.info/
Posted: Wed Mar 28, 2012 5:59 pm
by Half Life
Just make sure you use the wavelength of .5898 which is what is relevant for Maxwell materials.
Best,
Jason.
Re: http://refractiveindex.info/
Posted: Wed Mar 28, 2012 6:17 pm
by polynurb
Re: http://refractiveindex.info/
Posted: Wed Mar 28, 2012 7:25 pm
by Half Life
It's interesting, they specify 583 on the Maxwell page and I have seen elsewhere 589.29 -- I wonder which is correct
Best,
Jason.
Re: http://refractiveindex.info/
Posted: Wed Mar 28, 2012 11:38 pm
by David Solito
the indexes have not the same value on the wizard

Re: http://refractiveindex.info/
Posted: Thu Mar 29, 2012 3:38 pm
by Ha_Loe
Half Life wrote:It's interesting, they specify 583 on the Maxwell page and I have seen elsewhere 589.29 -- I wonder which is correct
Best,
Jason.
Interesting.... The 589.29nm refer to the center wavelength of the Fraunhofer D lines of Sodium/(Na)trium. So maybe a typo shortening 589.3 to 583?
The wavelength doesn't really matter as long as you don't have dispersion.
Funny thing is, nd in Abbe's formula doesn't refer to D but d lines (Helium at 587,56nm).

Re: http://refractiveindex.info/
Posted: Thu Mar 29, 2012 8:43 pm
by eric nixon
Tom if you read this, is this useful? how they use brewsters angle? and should we use .5893 ?
Thanks
Re: http://refractiveindex.info/
Posted: Fri Mar 30, 2012 6:17 pm
by tom
Thanks for pointing out the typo. As you say it's 589.3, not 583. Brewster's Angle is auto-computed according to fresnel. It's a property of dielectrics fresnel falloff (K=0).