• DocumentCode
    3331468
  • Title

    Generalized Sagnac Effect in Rotating Optical Cavities

  • Author

    Sunada, Satoshi ; Harayama, Takahisa ; Miyasaka, Tomohiro

  • Author_Institution
    ATR Wave Eng. Lab., Kyoto
  • Volume
    4
  • fYear
    2007
  • fDate
    1-5 July 2007
  • Firstpage
    158
  • Lastpage
    161
  • Abstract
    We study the effect of rotation on resonances of an optical cavity in an accelerated frame of reference. We show that, even when the resonant modes of an optical cavity are wave-chaotic, degenerate resonant frequency of those modes split into different frequencies due to the rotation of the cavity. The frequency difference is proportional to the rotation rate, although the splitting resonant modes are still wave-chaotic, which do not have any corresponding counter-propagating waves as well as ray-dynamical counterparts.
  • Keywords
    Sagnac interferometers; cavity resonators; optical chaos; optical resonators; optical rotation; Sagnac effect; degenerate resonant frequency; fiber-optic gyroscope; mode splitting; ray-dynamical properties; resonant modes; rotating optical cavities; wave-chaotic cavity; Acceleration; Chaos; Fiber lasers; Gyroscopes; Laboratories; Optical fiber theory; Optical interferometry; Resonance; Resonant frequency; Sagnac interferometers; Sagnac effect; optical gyroscope; quantum chaos;
  • fLanguage
    English
  • Publisher
    ieee
  • Conference_Titel
    Transparent Optical Networks, 2007. ICTON '07. 9th International Conference on
  • Conference_Location
    Rome
  • Print_ISBN
    1-4244-1249-8
  • Electronic_ISBN
    1-4244-1249-8
  • Type

    conf

  • DOI
    10.1109/ICTON.2007.4296366
  • Filename
    4296366