Optical material properties

Generic optical material

This is abstract class that all specific optical materials inherit and implement their own implementation of methods.

class OpticalMaterial

Abstract class implementing calculation of basic properties for optical materials.

Methods

getN(*args, **kwargs)

Refractive index of material

Attributes

name	Human-friendly name of material
sources	List of .csv files listing refractive index measurements first column in these files is wavelength (in mu m), the second refractive index
sourcesComment	Any notes about measured values
sourcesRange	Array of max and minimal wavelegth pairs [lambdaMin, lambdaMax] for each of the sources.

Solids

class Sapphire

Sapphire as optical material.

Methods

getN([vacuumWavelength, airWavelength, axis])

Attributes

name	Human-friendly name of material
sources	List of .csv files listing refractive index measurements first column in these files is wavelength (in mu m), the second refractive index
sourcesComment	Any notes about measured values
sourcesRange	Array of max and minimal wavelegth pairs [lambdaMin, lambdaMax] for each of the sources.

Gases

class Air

Air as an optical material at normal conditions

Methods

getN([vacuumWavelength])

Assumes temperature: 15 °C, pressure: 101325 Pa

Attributes

name	Human-friendly name of material
sources	List of .csv files listing refractive index measurements first column in these files is wavelength (in mu m), the second refractive index
sourcesComment	Any notes about measured values
sourcesRange	Array of max and minimal wavelegth pairs [lambdaMin, lambdaMax] for each of the sources.