DocumentCode
2281605
Title
Waveguide gyro
Author
Sun, Bohua
Author_Institution
Dept of Mech. Eng., Cape Peninsula Univ. of Technol., City of Cape Town, South Africa
fYear
2010
fDate
16-19 Aug. 2010
Firstpage
1324
Lastpage
1326
Abstract
The most accuracy solid state gyroscopes are the gyro based on Sagnac principal of light. Unfortunately, the gyro can not be miniaturized due to the needs of long light-path to increase the phase difference. The problem of this obstacle is that the speed of light is too fast and the phase change due to the light speed is too small to be detected. It is strongly needs a solution to increase the phase change by decreasing the light speed! For that purpose, the atomic wave gyro had been proposed based on the freeze atom technology, which will reduce the speed of light according to the quantum mechanics principle, it does works but the extra large equipment will be needed, and no way to make the atom wave gyro in MEMS scale. This paper is formulating a waveguide gyro based on the author´s previous work. From the theoretical formulation, the wave guide gyro is 1000 times accuracy and sensitive than Sagnac gyro at the situation of having same length of waveguide.
Keywords
gyroscopes; micromechanical devices; quantum theory; waveguides; MEMS scale; atomic wave gyro; freeze atom technology; light speed; phase difference; quantum mechanics principle; solid state gyroscope; waveguide gyro; Fiber optics; Gyroscopes; Interference; Laser beams; Optical interferometry; Sagnac interferometers;
fLanguage
English
Publisher
ieee
Conference_Titel
Electronic Packaging Technology & High Density Packaging (ICEPT-HDP), 2010 11th International Conference on
Conference_Location
Xi´an
Print_ISBN
978-1-4244-8140-8
Type
conf
DOI
10.1109/ICEPT.2010.5582801
Filename
5582801
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