TY - JOUR
T1 - Chirped area coupled resonator optical waveguide gyroscope
AU - Toland, John R.E.
AU - Kaston, Zachary A.
AU - Sorrentino, Christopher
AU - Search, Christopher P.
PY - 2011/4/1
Y1 - 2011/4/1
N2 - We study the transmission of an optical field through a rotating coupled resonator optical waveguide (CROW) in which the size of the ring resonators changes from one ring to the next. We focus on symmetric integer wavelength chirps of the circumference of the rings relative to the central ring in the array. The transfer matrix method is used to obtain the transmission as a function of the inertial rotation rate Ω resulting from the Sagnac effect. Chirping increases the slope of the oscillations in the transmission as a function of Ω, which can be exploited to further enhance the rotation sensitivity beyond that of a CROW with uniform resonators.
AB - We study the transmission of an optical field through a rotating coupled resonator optical waveguide (CROW) in which the size of the ring resonators changes from one ring to the next. We focus on symmetric integer wavelength chirps of the circumference of the rings relative to the central ring in the array. The transfer matrix method is used to obtain the transmission as a function of the inertial rotation rate Ω resulting from the Sagnac effect. Chirping increases the slope of the oscillations in the transmission as a function of Ω, which can be exploited to further enhance the rotation sensitivity beyond that of a CROW with uniform resonators.
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U2 - 10.1364/OL.36.001221
DO - 10.1364/OL.36.001221
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:79956145706
SN - 0146-9592
VL - 36
SP - 1221
EP - 1223
JO - Optics Letters
JF - Optics Letters
IS - 7
ER -