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as differences between energy levels, energy being proportional to wavenumber, or frequency. However, spectroscopic data kept being tabulated in terms of spectroscopic wavenumber rather than frequency or energy.
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The sign convention is chosen for consistency with propagation in lossy media. If the attenuation constant is positive, then the wave amplitude decreases as the wave propagates in the x-direction.
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The historical reason for using this spectroscopic wavenumber rather than frequency is that it is a convenient unit when studying atomic spectra by counting fringes per cm with an
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Here we assume that the wave is regular in the sense that the different quantities describing the wave such as the wavelength, frequency and thus the wavenumber are constants. See
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is the free-space wavenumber, as above. The imaginary part of the wavenumber expresses attenuation per unit distance and is useful in the study of exponentially decaying
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In theoretical physics, a wave number, defined as the number of radians per unit distance, sometimes called "angular wavenumber", is more often used:
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Often spatial frequencies are stated by some authors "in wavenumbers", incorrectly transferring the name of the quantity to the CGS unit cm itself.
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which remains essentially the same in air, and so the spectroscopic wavenumber is directly related to the angles of light scattered from
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For example, a wavenumber in inverse centimeters can be converted to a frequency expressed in the unit gigahertz by multiplying by
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of the wave. The dependence of the wavenumber on the frequency (or more commonly the frequency on the wavenumber) is known as a
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is still being represented, albeit indirectly. As described in the spectroscopy section, this is done through the relationship
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The propagation factor of a sinusoidal plane wave propagating in the positive x direction in a linear material is given by
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of 1908 was also formulated in terms of wavenumbers. A few years later spectral lines could be understood in
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Murthy, V. L. R.; Lakshman, S. V. J. (1981). "Electronic absorption spectrum of cobalt antipyrine complex".
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Diagram illustrating the relationship between the wavenumber and the other properties of harmonic waves.
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Wavenumber can be used to specify quantities other than spatial frequency. For example, in
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is the wavelength. It is sometimes called the "spectroscopic wavenumber". It equals the
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A complex-valued wavenumber can be defined for a medium with complex-valued relative
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Digital Imaging and Deconvolution: The ABCs of Seismic Exploration and Processing
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Understanding Earth Observation: The Electromagnetic Foundation of Remote Sensing
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for discussion of the case when these quantities are not constant.
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in vacuum, wavenumber is directly proportional to frequency and to
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in a vacuum, in which the wave propagates at the speed of light,
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have simple relationships to the components of the wavenumber:
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energy. Because of this, wavenumbers are used as a convenient
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Journal of Quantitative Spectroscopy and Radiative Transfer
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cm). The angular wavenumber may be expressed in the unit
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and most chemistry fields, is defined as the number of
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Index

Kayser (unit)

physical sciences
spatial frequency
wave
cycles
radians
frequency
multidimensional systems
wave vector
reciprocal space
optics
scattering
X-ray diffraction
neutron diffraction
electron diffraction
elementary particle
quantum mechanical
reduced Planck constant
canonical momentum
optical spectroscopy
speed of light
spectroscopy
wavelengths
spatial frequency
speed of light
ν
frequency
hertz
dimensions

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