[ATM] refractive index of air

[Richard]

Hi Dominic-Luc,

Wednesday, August 8, 2007, 11:21:50 AM, you wrote:

DLW> Hunting around a little, I am not having much luck finding any
DLW> tables for the refractive index of air as a function of
DLW> wavelength.

There's a graph here :

http://mintaka.sdsu.edu/GF/explain/optics/disp.html

And some references here :

http://mintaka.sdsu.edu/GF/explain/atmos_refr/air_refr.html

Ah, bingo, there's a Sellmeier representation including temperature
and pressure on page 3 of this PDF (for 'standard' dry air):

http://eprints.lib.hokudai.ac.jp/dspace/bitstream/2115/14750/1/IPLT18-15.pdf



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Best regards,
  Richard in the UK