• DocumentCode
    3100913
  • Title

    Radial Bragg laser as a miniaturized rotation sensor

  • Author

    Ben-Bassat, Eyal ; Karni, Yoram ; Scheuer, Jacob

  • Author_Institution
    Sch. of Electr. Eng., Tel Aviv Univ., Ramat Aviv, Israel
  • fYear
    2013
  • fDate
    23-27 June 2013
  • Firstpage
    1
  • Lastpage
    4
  • Abstract
    We present and study theoretically a novel approach for rotation sensing by utilizing radial Bragg lasers (RBL) as a miniaturized optical Gyro. We study the dynamics and steady state of the electric fields evolving in the RBLs under rotation. We show that by utilizing the properties of the steady-state field profile of the RBL rather than a direct measurement of the Sagnac frequency-shift, it is possible to increase significantly the sensitivity for slow rotation rates.
  • Keywords
    laser beam applications; optical rotation; optical sensors; RBL; electric field; miniaturized optical Gyro; miniaturized rotation sensor; radial Bragg lasers; steady-state field profile; Cavity resonators; Integrated optics; Optical interferometry; Optical refraction; Optical sensors; Robot sensing systems; Sagnac interferometers;
  • fLanguage
    English
  • Publisher
    ieee
  • Conference_Titel
    Transparent Optical Networks (ICTON), 2013 15th International Conference on
  • Conference_Location
    Cartagena
  • ISSN
    2161-2056
  • Type

    conf

  • DOI
    10.1109/ICTON.2013.6603040
  • Filename
    6603040