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Which is the largest refractive index material that can be used for optical communication and what is its refractive index?
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∙ 10y ago
It depends on what you mean by "for optical communication", but the standard Optical fibers that route light around have an index of 1.4, which is modest. But for on-chip electronics, Silicon or Gallium Arsenide are typically used, which have indices of 3.96, and 3.927 respectively. These values are about the largest one can find for any materials that are also low-loss for light.
Some researchers are looking into the field of 'plasmonics' which incorporates metals, which have much higher refractive indices, but metals are also very lossy, so most of these attempts are still in the research phase.
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