Where can I get spectral temperature-dependent values for the complex index of refraction of water and aluminum?

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Gerhard Martens

Dear Omar

the links below look quite interesting . But I can't look deeper in it.

Via your university you may get access to that book(s).

There are different versions of that book (series) from the same author

Good luck.

https://books.google.de/books?id=FeeNeEzQ3GMC&pg=RA3-PA44&lpg=RA3-PA44&dq=temperature+dependence+complex+index+of+refraction+water+aluminum&source=bl&ots=Lw-OPzYsL8&sig=oZGiVcAxyTBzoZVBfumMmenGFQM&hl=de&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwi88PW6r-DSAhXFVxQKHSNXBQkQ6AEILjAC#v=onepage&q=temperature%20dependence%20complex%20index%20of%20refraction%20water%20aluminum&f=false

http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/book/9780125444156

https://www.elsevier.com/books/handbook-of-optical-constants-of-solids/palik/978-0-08-055630-7

Dario Ambrosini

Dear Omar,

It is not exactly what you are looking for, but in C.M. Vest's Holographic Interferometry you could find relations giving the (non complex) refractive index of water, at two different wavelengths, as a function of temperature.