Timeline for Refractive index of extremely thin film
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| Dec 19, 2019 at 19:30 | vote | accept | texnic | ||
| Dec 19, 2019 at 14:53 | answer | added | Gilbert | timeline score: 0 | |
| Dec 19, 2019 at 14:36 | comment | added | lineage | And if it would, then what is the refractive index of such thin film? but you just said that the film has been designed for another $\lambda$ Doesn't that mean you have already fixed $\mu$? | |
| Dec 19, 2019 at 14:34 | comment | added | lineage | whats the formula you are using to calulate reflectivity at a given $\lambda$? | |
| Dec 19, 2019 at 14:08 | history | edited | Qmechanic♦ |
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| Dec 19, 2019 at 14:00 | comment | added | user137289 | When the medium is the same on both sides, the phase changes for reflection at both sides are opposite, so for a film much thinner than the wavelength both reflected waves will almost cancel (the "black" part of soap films). | |
| Dec 19, 2019 at 13:59 | comment | added | Jon Custer | Generally, the formulae hold well under the condition that the various films are planar and continuous. Your bigger problem may be that the optical constants are likely different, the only question being how different. | |
| Dec 19, 2019 at 12:37 | history | asked | texnic | CC BY-SA 4.0 |