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Measurement, Instrumentation, and Sensors Handbook, Second Edition, 2nd Edition
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Measurement, Instrumentation, and Sensors Handbook, Second Edition, 2nd Edition

by John G. Webster, Halit Eren
February 2014
Intermediate to advanced content levelIntermediate to advanced
1921 pages
82h 13m
English
CRC Press
Content preview from Measurement, Instrumentation, and Sensors Handbook, Second Edition, 2nd Edition
50-1
50.1 Introduction
Light is electromagnetic radiation of wavelength about 450–700 nm, in which region the human eye is
sen
sitive
an
d
re
fractive
in
dex
me
asurements
ar
e
co
mmonly
ma
de
.
e re
fractive
in
dex
or in
dices
of a
su
bstance
de
scribe
an im
portant
pa
rt
of it
s
in
teraction
wi
th
el
ectromagnetic
ra
diation
.
Re
fractive
in
dex
is a di
mensionless
qu
antity,
re
al
fo
r
tr
ansparent
ma
terials
an
d
co
mplex
if th
ere
is ab
sorption
.
It ge
ner-
ally
de
pends
on th
e
di
rection
of li
ght
re
lative
to ax
es
of th
e
ma
terial;
su
ch
su
bstances,
fo
r
ex
ample,
ma
ny
cr
ystals,
ar
e
an
isotropic
an
d
po
ssess
mo
re
th
an
on
e
re
fractive
in
dex
. In ge
neral,
th
e
in
dex
is a te
nsor
(3 × 3 ...
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