• 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