Design and operation of a very large ring laser gyroscope

Applied Optics

Volumn 38, Issue 12, 1999, Pages 2516-2523

  Rowe, Clive H ^a   Schreiber, Ulrich K ^a,b   Cooper, Steven J ^a   King, B Tom ^a   Poulton, Morrie ^a   Stedman, Geoffrey E ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CANTERBURY   (New Zealand)

^b Fundamentalstation Wettzell   (Germany)

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EID: 0001690244     PISSN: 1559128X     EISSN: 21553165     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/AO.38.002516     Document Type: Article

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