refidx

Retrieve the refractive index of a material at a given wavelength from the refractiveindex.info database.

See documentation at benvial.gitlab.io/refidx.

Citing

refidx

B. Vial. refidx: Python package to retrieve the refractive index of material from the refractiveindex.info database. gitlab (2021). https://benvial.gitlab.io/refidx

Bibtex entry

@software{refidx,
  author   = {Vial, Benjamin},
  title    = {\texttt{refidx}: Python package to retrieve the refractive index of material from  the \texttt{refractiveindex.info} database},
  year     = {2021},
  journal  = {gitlab},
  url      = {https://benvial.gitlab.io/refidx},
}

refractiveindex.info database

M. N. Polyanskiy. Refractiveindex.info database of optical constants. Sci. Data 11, 94 (2024). https://doi.org/10.1038/s41597-023-02898-2

Bibtex entry

@article{polyanskiy2024,
	title = {Refractiveindex.info database of optical constants},
	volume = {11},
	issn = {2052-4463},
	url = {https://www.nature.com/articles/s41597-023-02898-2},
	doi = {10.1038/s41597-023-02898-2},
	number = {1},
	journal = {Scientific Data},
	author = {Polyanskiy, Mikhail N.},
	month = jan,
	year = {2024},
	keywords = {Materials for optics, Optical materials and structures},
	pages = {94},
}

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