Chirped area coupled resonator optical waveguide gyroscope

John R.E. Toland, Zachary A. Kaston, Christopher Sorrentino, Christopher P. Search

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Abstract

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.

Original languageEnglish
Pages (from-to)1221-1223
Number of pages3
JournalOptics Letters
Volume36
Issue number7
DOIs
StatePublished - 1 Apr 2011

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