Abstract

This paper reports an experimental study of the refractive index of dense mercury vapor at the lasing wavelength of a XeCl* laser, 308 nm. It is established that the refractive index varies in accordance with the Lorentz-Lorenz formula in the range of mercury-vapor concentrations 1.2×10¹⁸ -1.8×10¹⁹ cm⁻³. The results of the measurements are presented in the form of a graph of the refractive index (n_p−1)×10⁴ vs the mercury-vapor concentration.

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