We study experimentally the frequency dependences of the refractive index n and the absorption coefficient k of distilled, sea, and river water. The measurements were performed using a quasioptical device with a backward-wave oscillator as the radiation source and OAP-7 optical-acoustic receivers at a water temperature of 27 • C in the cell. The quantities n and k were determined from the measured transmission and reflection coefficients of the cell with water by means of joint numerical solution of the equations for these quantities. For distilled water in the frequency range f = 75-120 GHz, we obtained n = 6.142 − 3.926On the whole, these data are in good agreement with the measurement results obtained by other authors at several frequencies of the indicated range and coincide with the calculation data based on the models by Meissner and Wentz and by Liebe et al. within the limits of the rms determination errors 0.05 and 0.02 for the parameters n and k, respectively. The values of n and k for different seawater samples and river water containing insoluble admixtures coincide with the values of these quantities for distilled water within the limits of the experimental measurement errors 3-5% and 1-2%, respectively. The dependences n(f ) and k(f ) obtained experimentally for seawater are compared with those calculated on the basis of the developed models.Measurements of the transmission spectrum of a cell with double distilled water were performed for low power density of radiation (less than µW/cm 2 ) to reproduce the effect of water resonant transparency reported many times in the literature. Our measurements did not reveal any resonant features in the spectral behavior of the refractive index n and the absorption coefficient k of water and gave the same result as for a power density exceeding the threshold of appearance of this effect.

We obtain experimental data on the complex refractive index N = n + ik of petroleum, five petroleum oils, and water-petroleum emulsion in the frequency range f = 75-120 GHz. Measurements were performed in a quasioptical equipment with a backward-wave oscillator generating the radiation and an OAP-7 optical-acoustic receivers for a temperature of 27 • C of studied liquids. The refractive indices n of petroleum and oil have a weak negative dispersion (dn/df < 0) and close values. At a frequency of 100 GHz, they lie in the range n = 1.477-1.495. The absorption indices k have different frequency dependences such that k increases for four oils, while it decreases for petroleum and SM-4.5 oil with increasing f . At the frequency f = 100 GHz, the values of k vary in a wide range from 2.4 · 10 −4 to 1.7 · 10 −3 . The measurement results for petroleum and oils are compared with experimental results obtained by other authors. The frequency dependences of n and k of water-petroleum emulsion for water concentrations 0.11% and 0.58% are compared with the data calculated using various analytical models of dielectric mixtures. The dependences n(f ) and k(f ) calculated by the Kubo-Nakamura formula are the closest to the experimental data.

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