Introduction to Optical Liquids

Any liquid can be used for its optical properties, but in practice the need for stability, low toxicity, system compatibility, transparency, and low cost in addition to specific refractive index and dispersion values would make finding a suitable liquid for an application an enormous and complicated task, if Cargille Laboratories had not, over a period of 40 years, gone through the selection process looking for liquid formulas that have the kinds of properties that are most desirable.