Modified Sagnac experiment for measuring travel-time difference between counter-propagating light beams in a uniformly moving fiber

Physics Letters, Section A: General, Atomic and Solid State Physics

Volumn 312, Issue 1-2, 2003, Pages 7-10

  Wang, Ruyong ^a   Zheng, Yi ^a   Yao, Aiping ^a   Langley, Dean ^b  

^a ST CLOUD STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b ST JOHN'S UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Fiber optic gyroscope; Light propagation; Sagnac effect; Speed of light

Indexed keywords

FIBER OPTICS; FIBERS; GYROSCOPES; LIGHT VELOCITY; TRAVEL TIME;

COUNTERPROPAGATING; FIBER OPTIC GYROSCOPES; FIBER SEGMENTS; LIGHT BEAM; SAGNAC EFFECT;

LIGHT PROPAGATION;

ARTICLE; DEVICE; FIBER OPTICS; LIGHT; MEASUREMENT; TIME; TRAVEL; VELOCITY;

EID: 0038413678     PISSN: 03759601     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0375-9601(03)00575-9     Document Type: Article

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