Glass refractive indices

Cover glasses Refractive-index liquids Mortar and pestle Alcohol (Isopropyl) and spray bottles... 

Table 3.ft-16a Properties of optical glasses. Refractive index and Sellmeier constants... 

For specular reflection of light passing perpendicularly through a sheet of window glass (refractive index about 1.5), about 4 percent of its intensity will be lost by reflection at each surface (front and back), as calculated by the simple Fresnel formula given above, leaving only about 92 percent transmitted. 

For an air/glass interface, tan 0b = n, the refractive index of glass. In a gas laser, the light must be reflected back and forth between mirrors and through the gas container hundreds of times. Each time the beam passes through the cavity, it must pass through transparent windows at the ends of the gas container (Figure 18.10b), and it is clearly important that this transmission be as efficient as possible. 

Solution Polymers. Acryflc solution polymers are usually characterized by their composition, solids content, viscosity, molecular weight, glass-transition temperature, and solvent. The compositions of acryflc polymers are most readily determined by physicochemical methods such as spectroscopy, pyrolytic gas—liquid chromatography, and refractive index measurements (97,158). The solids content of acryflc polymers is determined by dilution followed by solvent evaporation to constant weight. Viscosities are most conveniently determined with a Brookfield viscometer, molecular weight by intrinsic viscosity (158), and glass-transition temperature by calorimetry. 

Viable glass fibers for optical communication are made from glass of an extremely high purity as well as a precise refractive index stmcture. The first fibers produced for this purpose in the 1960s attempted to improve on the quahty of traditional optical glasses, which at that time exhibited losses on the order of 1000 dB/km. To achieve optical transmission over sufficient distance to be competitive with existing systems, the optical losses had to be reduced to below 20 dB/km. It was realized that impurities such as transition-metal ion contamination in this glass must be reduced to unprecedented levels (see Fig. 

Optical Properties. Teflon FEP fluorocarbon film transmits more ultraviolet, visible light, and infrared radiation than ordinary window glass. The refractive index of FEP film is 1.341—1.347 (74). 

Refra.ctlon, Optical glasses are usually described in terms of their refractive index at the sodium D line (589.3 nm), and their v value (or Abbe number) which is a measure of the dispersion or variation of index with wavelength, ie, v = ), in which is the refractive index at the... 

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