Why is the Adachi procedure successful to avoid divergences in optical models?

• Published in: Optics express Vol. 28; no. 19; pp. 28548 - 28562
• Main Authors: Larruquert, Juan I., Rodríguez de Marcos, Luis V.
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: 14-09-2020
• ISSN: 1094-4087; 1094-4087
• DOI: 10.1364/OE.402079

Adachi proposed a procedure to avoid divergences in optical-constant models by slightly shifting photon energies to complex numbers on the real part of the complex dielectric function, ε 1 . The imaginary part, ε 2 , was ignored in that shift and, despite this, the shifted function would also provide ε 2 (in addition to ε 1 ) in the limit of real energies. The procedure has been successful to model many materials and material groups, even though it has been applied phenomenologically, i.e., it has not been demonstrated. This research presents a demonstration of the Adachi procedure. The demonstration is based on that ε 2 is a piecewise function (i.e., it has more than one functionality), which results in a branch cut in the dielectric function at the real photon energies where ε 2 is not null. The Adachi procedure is seen to be equivalent to a recent procedure developed to turn optical models into analytic by integrating the dielectric function with a Lorentzian function. Such equivalence is exemplified on models used by Adachi and on popular piecewise optical models: Tauc-Lorentz and Cody-Lorentz-Urbach models.