Ultra-sensitive chip scale Sagnac gyroscope based on periodically modulated coupling of a coupled resonator optical waveguide

Optics Express

Volumn 20, Issue 1, 2012, Pages 354-363

  Sorrentino, Christopher ^a   Toland, John R E ^a   Search, Christopher P ^a  

^a Stevens Institute of Technology   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CRYSTAL RESONATORS; OPTICAL WAVEGUIDES; ROTATION; WAVEGUIDES;

CHIP SCALE; COUPLED-RESONATOR OPTICAL WAVEGUIDES; EVANESCENT COUPLING; INERTIAL NAVIGATIONS; MICRON SCALE; PERIODIC MODULATION; SAGNAC GYROSCOPE; TRANSMISSION BAND; TRANSMISSION RESONANCE;

GYROSCOPES;

ACCELERATION; ARTICLE; EQUIPMENT; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; INSTRUMENTATION; OPTICAL INSTRUMENTATION; REFRACTOMETRY; SURFACE PLASMON RESONANCE; TRANSDUCER;

ACCELERATION; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; EQUIPMENT FAILURE ANALYSIS; OPTICAL DEVICES; REFRACTOMETRY; SURFACE PLASMON RESONANCE; TRANSDUCERS;

EID: 84855470703     PISSN: None     EISSN: 10944087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OE.20.000354     Document Type: Article

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