Optimizing the frequency in dithered laser gyroscopes

Optics Communications

Volumn 213, Issue 4-6, 2002, Pages 331-337

  Bohn, Matthew J ^a   Diels, Jean Claude ^b  

^a USAF   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF NEW MEXICO   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER SIMULATION; ELECTROOPTICAL DEVICES; LASER PULSES; OPTICAL COMMUNICATION;

LASER GYROSCOPES;

RING LASERS;

EID: 0036895412     PISSN: 00304018     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0030-4018(02)02044-8     Document Type: Article

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