How to Use refractive index in a Sentence

refractive index

noun

• In the off-state mode, the refractive index of the polymer in the ring is changed.
  — IEEE Spectrum, 7 May 2018
• The core glass is made from a material that has a slightly higher refractive index than the cladding.
  — John Ballato, The Conversation, 24 Mar. 2026
• The refractive index describes how much light bends when passing through a particle.
  — Aamir Khollam, Interesting Engineering, 14 Nov. 2025
• The first are germanium pillars, which have a high refractive index.
  — Christopher McFadden, Interesting Engineering, 8 Mar. 2026
• Both of these kinds of voxels modify the speed at which light travels through the glass, which is based off a factor called the refractive index.
  — IEEE Spectrum, 18 Feb. 2026
• The second is a series of air holes with a low refractive index, and the last is a polymer matrix to act as the base material.
  — Christopher McFadden, Interesting Engineering, 8 Mar. 2026
• In the future, the researchers may use gradient refractive index technology with the new hybrid black.
  — New Atlas, 26 June 2026
• The refractive index measures this slowing of light inside a material.
  — John Ballato, The Conversation, 24 Mar. 2026
• Typically, pure silica is used for the layers that make up the core and cladding, though to get a higher refractive index in the core, researchers add small amounts of other glass components to the silica.
  — John Ballato, The Conversation, 24 Mar. 2026
• Echodyne’s innovation is to use scanning arrays, based on metamaterials whose refractive index can be tuned electronically.
  — IEEE Spectrum, 16 Mar. 2020