Nemoto 1992
Nemoto 1992
Nemoto 1992
Shojiro Nemoto
A simple method for measuring the refractive index of liquid is presented. When a laser beam impinges
obliquely on a rectangular cell filled with liquid and passes through the cell, the propagation axis of the
transmitted beam is displaced from that of the incident beam. By measuring the displacement, we can
determine the refractive index of the liquid. Beams of a He-Ne laser and a laser diode were used for
measuring the refractive indices of pure water and some organic liquids.
Key words: Refractive index of liquid, laser beam displacement.
0.6
Is 0.5
'1 0.4
0.3
0.2-20
15-
0.1 l 1.2
1. 1.6 1.8 210- 2.2
5-
Fig. 1. (a) Rectangular cell; (b) displacement of the beam axis that
is due to the refraction by liquid and the cell walls. n2 /no
which gives n2 /daA = 0.3275 mm-'. Hence the (sin 0 cos Oi - cos 0 sin 0j)
error 0.001 mm in A causes the error of - 0.0003 in tan 'i =(cos 0 cos 0i + sin 0 sin ) (Al)
Table 2. Measured Refractive Indices of Some Liquids at 785 nm and Substitution of relations
Those Calculated from a Single-Term Sellmeier Equation
sin Oi = (n 0 /ni)sin 0, cos Oi = [1 - (n 0 /ni)2 sin2 0]1/2
0(0) Pure Water Acetone Ethanol Cyclohexane
(A2)
10 1.3274 1.3540 1.3572 1.4142
20 1.3257 1.3571 1.3582 1.4153 into Eq. (Al) yields
30 1.3279 1.3504 1.3578 1.4162
tan Al = [(n, - no cos 0)/(n, cos 0 + no sin 2 0)]sin 0,
Average 1.32700a 1 .3 5 3 83b 1.35773c 1 .4 1 5 2 3d
Calculated 1.32864e 1.35267e 1.35769f 1.42153f (A3)
Liquid temperature (oC): a26.7, b26 .2 , c18.2, d2 1 .6 , e25, f20. where n, = (n,2 - n0
2
sin2 0)1/2. With the use of Eq.
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