Chapter One
Fundamental Optical Properties
of Materials I
W.C. Tan, K. Koughia, J. Singh, and S.O. Kasap
Department of Electrical Engineering, University of Saskatchewan, Saskatoon, Canada
Faculty of Technology, Charles Darwin University, Darwin, NT 0909, Australia
1.1 Introduction 1
1.2 Optical Constants 2
1.2.1 Refractive index and extinction coefficient 2
1.2.2
n and
K, and Kramers Kronig relations 5
1.3 Refractive Index and Dispersion 6
1.3.1 Cauchy dispersion relation 7
1.3.2 Sellmeier dispersion equation 7
1.3.3 Refractive index of semiconductors 10
1.3.4 Gla ...
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