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Autocompensating interferometer for measuring the changes in refractive index of supercooled water as a function of temperature at 632.8 nm

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Abstract

An interferometric arrangement that automatically compensates for thermal expansion was used to examine the changes in the refractive index of liquid water at 632.8 nm as a function of temperature from 10 to -15 °C. By combining the results of this research with existing data, we calculated the absolute refractive index in the supercooled region with an accuracy ranging from 3 × 10-6 to 1 × 10-5. A direct observation of the refractive-index maximum of water is reported for the first time to our knowledge and found to occur between 0 and 0.1 °C.

© 2002 Optical Society of America

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