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Effective attenuation coefficient for polychromatic light

The Beer-Lambert law gives the optical intensity of collimated light as a function of depth $z$ as: $$I(z)=I_{0}\mathrm e^{-\gamma z},$$ where $\gamma = \alpha + \beta$ is the wavelength-dependent ...
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