A Chip-based Brillouin Laser Gyroscope

Yu-Hung Lai, Myoung-Gyun Suh, Jiang Li, Yu-Kun Lu, Boqiang Shen, Qi-Fan Yang, Heming Wang, Ki Youl Yang, Kerry Vahala

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Abstract: Inspired by the success of semiconductor-chip-based MEMs rotation sensors, there has long been interest in the possible realization of chip-based optical gyroscopes. Such devices could potentially be lightweight and rugged, while featuring some of the sensitivity advantages of Sagnac-based sensing devices. However, the performance of integrated-optical gyroscopes has lagged behind MEMS devices on account of difficult-to-achieve requirements for low-optical-loss chip-based waveguides and optical resonators. Here, a chip-based ring laser gyroscope is described. Its sensitivity is high enough to measure the Earth’s rotation. The physical principles of its operation and its current performance will be reviewed.
Published in: 2020 IEEE/ION Position, Location and Navigation Symposium (PLANS)
April 20 - 23, 2020
Hilton Portland Downtown
Portland, Oregon
Pages: 1 - 8
Cite this article: Lai, Yu-Hung, Suh, Myoung-Gyun, Li, Jiang, Lu, Yu-Kun, Shen, Boqiang, Yang, Qi-Fan, Wang, Heming, Yang, Ki Youl, Vahala, Kerry, "A Chip-based Brillouin Laser Gyroscope," 2020 IEEE/ION Position, Location and Navigation Symposium (PLANS), Portland, Oregon, April 2020, pp. 1-8. https://doi.org/10.1109/PLANS46316.2020.9109858
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