Coriolis force and Sagnac effect

The optical Sagnac effect is considered, when the fictitious gravitational field simulates the reflections from the mirrors. It is shown that no contradiction exists between the conclusions of the laboratory and rotated observers. Because of the acting of a gravity-like Coriolis force, the trajectories of coand anti-rotating photons have different radii in the rotating reference frame, while in the case of equal radii the effective gravitational potentials for the photons have to be different.     

Proposal of a semiconductor ring laser gyroscope

We proposed a novel optical inertial rotation sensor using a semiconductor ring laser (SRL). The frequency difference between the two counter propagating oscillation frequencies was automatically generated in a mechanically rotated SRL, which consisted of a pig-tailed laser diode amplifier module. And the Sagnac frequency shift could be detected at the first time as a beat note by the terminal voltage change of the SRL without branching the circulating optical power. These experimental results verify that an SRL operates as an optical inertial rotation sensor based on the Sagnac effect.     

Sagnac干涉仪与光纤环形激光器

依据相干光学理论,以现代激光干涉侧试技术中的光纤Ｓａｇｎａｃ干涉仪为例,分析和讨论了光纤环形激光器的基本工作原理,并结合其物理原理简要介绍了光纤环形激光器和光纤陀螺（ＦＯＧ）的应用的发展前景。     

Sagnac效应在光纤水听器中的应用

本文介绍了Ｓａｇｎａｃ效应组成的光纤水听器原理，着重推导了声压作用下的光纤水听器的相位变化关系，并在此基础上对比了Ｓａｇｎａｃ光纤水听器与Ｍａｃｈ－Ｚｅｈｎｄｅｒ光纤水听器，结果表明Ｓａｇｎａｃ光纤水听器在低频段的灵敏度及其实现的简易性上具有很大优势。     

The Sagnac effect in curved space-times from an analogy with the Aharonov-Bohm effect

In the context of the natural splitting, the standard relative dynamics can be expressed in terms of gravito-electromagnetic fields, which allow to formally introduce a gravito-magnetic Aharonov-Bohm effect. We showed elsewhere that this formal analogy can be used to derive the Sagnac effect in flat space-time as a gravito-magnetic Aharonov-Bohm effect. Here, we generalize those results to study the General Relativistic corrections to the Sagnac effect in some stationary and axially symmetric geometries, such as the space-time around a weakly gravitating and rotating source, Kerr space-time, Gödel universe and Schwarzschild space-time.     

Sagnac效应在光纤水听器中的应用

本文介绍了由Sagnac效应组成的光纤水听器原理，着重推导了声压作用下的光纤水听器的相位变化关系．并在此基础上对比了Sagnac光纤水听器与Mach-Zehnder光纤水听器，结果表明Sagnac光纤水听器在低频段的灵敏度及其实现的简易性上具有很大优势．     

光导开关非线性导通时的载流子累加效应

利用半导体激光器作为触发源,对砷化镓光导开关进行了实验研究,重点研究了载流子累加效应对开关输出特性的影响。实验结果表明,光导开关的导通机制与内部载流子数的多少直接相关,当开关中的载流子数积累到雪崩碰撞电离条件,开关就会发生非线性导通。采用低能量光脉冲序列触发光导开关,获得了高功率输出,降低了开关非线性导通时的触发光能和偏置电压,对于光导开关的应用具有重要意义。     

光导开关非线性导通时的载流子累加效应

利用半导体激光器作为触发源,对砷化镓光导开关进行了实验研究,重点研究了载流子累加效应对开关输出特性的影响。实验结果表明,光导开关的导通机制与内部载流子数的多少直接相关,当开关中的载流子数积累到雪崩碰撞电离条件,开关就会发生非线性导通。采用低能量光脉冲序列触发光导开关,获得了高功率输出,降低了开关非线性导通时的触发光能和偏置电压,对于光导开关的应用具有重要意义。     

Tunable Fiber Ring Laser Employing a Sagnac Interferometric Filter

A tunable erbium-doped fiber ring laser employing an all -polarization- maintaining fiber loop filter with certain birefringence is proposed and demonstrated. The lasing frequencies can be selected by properly adjusting the polarization controller in the cavity.     

一种基于微波谐振测量Sagnac效应的新方案

目前光学陀螺的主要工作原理是Sagnac效应, 如何提高Sagnac效应的测量精度是提高陀螺精度的一个重要研究课题. 传统的光学陀螺利用光短波长的特性来提高检测精度. 但考虑到微波的相位(频率)检测精度远高于光波的相位(频率)检测精度, 如果能够利用微波实现Sagnac效应的检测, 就能得到比光学陀螺更高的检测精度, 从而为实现高精度的微波陀螺提供了可能. 利用基于光电振荡器的光载微波结构实现了微波Sagnac效应的检测. 实验结果证明了微波检测Sagnac效应的可行性, 为将来实现高精度的微波谐振陀螺打下基础.     

光纤Sagnac温度传感器

介绍了一种新型的基于光纤Sagnac干涉仪的高精度光纤温度传感器———光纤Sagnac温度传感器。讨论了此传感器的测温原理,推导了被测温度与传感器输出之间的关系,设计并调测了一个具体传感器系统。实验结果表明,此温度传感器具有很高的精度和大的测量范围。     

基于高双折射Sagnac环的可调环形腔掺铒光纤激光器理论与实验研究

报道了一种利用偏振控制器（PC）和保偏光纤（PMF）组成的高双折射Sagnac干涉环实现选频和调谐的环形腔掺铒光纤激光器.理论模拟了PMF和PC对波长的控制作用.实验中调节PC得到了单波长、双波长和多波长激光;并验证了滤波间隔随PMF长度的变化规律.实验中得到了斜率效率20%,3 dB线宽0.016 nm,30 dB线宽0.097 nm,边模抑制比（SMSR）40 dB左右的稳定激光输出. 关键词： 光纤激光器 Sagnac干涉环 环形腔 掺铒光纤     

利用非线性Sagnac干涉法提高短脉冲信噪比

理论研究了影响Sagnac干涉法信噪比提升能力和效率的各项因素。通过控制脉冲的空间分布和衰减片透过率,能够有效提高Sagnac干涉法的效率。Sagnac干涉法提升信噪比的能力与入射脉冲的信噪比有关:入射脉冲信噪比越高,信噪比提升的量级就越大。在SILEX-Ⅰ超短超强脉冲激光装置上建立了实验平台。3 TW压缩器输出的超短超强脉冲光经衰减片进入Sagnac干涉仪,非线性介质为5 cm长的熔石英材料,衰减片透过率为55%。当入射脉冲能量为6.6 mJ时,利用三阶自相关仪测量得到脉冲的信噪比从使用Sagna干涉仪前的10-6提高到了10-7,此时出射脉冲的能量为1.6 mJ,效率为24%。该方法对光束口径没有限制,能够用于大能量条件下短脉冲信噪比的提升。     

级联光栅结合Sagnac环的可调谐光纤激光器

提出并验证了一种单-双波长可调谐掺铒光纤激光器。利用级联光纤布拉格光栅(Cascaded Fiber Bragg gratings,Cascaded FBGs)结合Sagnac环结构所产生的复合滤波效应,实现较高精细度滤波,并通过调节环内偏振控制器(Polarization Controller,PC),引入双折射效应,得到波长可调谐的光纤激光器。基于耦合模理论并使用传输矩阵法对该结构的传输特性进行了分析,在此基础上搭建实验系统,验证了理论分析的正确性。实验结果表明:通过调节PC,激光器输出激光的波长范围约为1 555.644～1 556.112 nm,双波长间隔的可调范围约为0.108～0.452 nm,单-双波长的边模抑制比(SMSR)均高于40 dB;在稳定性测试中,输出单-双波长激光的波长最大漂移量小于0.008 nm。该方法具有结构简单、调谐方便、易于实现且精细度较高的优点,可应用于密集波分复用及全光通信系统等领域。     

Georges Sagnac: A life for optics

Georges Sagnac is mostly known for the optical effect in rotating frames that he demonstrated in 1913. His scientific interests were quite diverse: they included photography, optical illusions, X-ray physics, radioactivity, the blue of the sky, anomalous wave propagation, interferometry, strioscopy, and acoustics. An optical theme nonetheless pervaded his entire œuvre. Within optics, an original theory of the propagation of light motivated most of his investigations, from an ingenious explanation of the Fresnel drag, through the discovery of the Sagnac effect, to his quixotic defense of an alternative to relativity theory. Optical analogies efficiently guided his work in other domains. Optics indeed was his true passion. He saw himself as carrying the torch of the two great masters of French optics, Augustin Fresnel and Hippolyte Fizeau. In this mission he overcame his poor health and labored against the modernist tide, with much success originally and bitter isolation in the end.     

SOA-assisted Sagnac switch and investigation of its roadmap from 10 to 40 GHz

Future broadband optical communications networks will rely on all-optical switches to perform a set of processing functions exclusively in the optical domain. Interferometric optical switches using semiconductor optical amplifier (SOA) nonlinearities can perform efficient optical switching with few tens of fJ control energies and short fiber lengths allowing for monolithic integration. In this paper we present work performed with a three terminal SOA-assisted Sagnac interferometer. We review all-optical Boolean AND and XOR logic results at 10 GHz and 10 Gb/s for full duty cycle and pseudo-random data pattern operation, respectively, achieved with adequate contrast ratios, remarkably low switching energies and low pattern dependence. The ability of the device to be cascaded was proved up to 10 GHz by recirculating stably for hours arbitrary pattern profiles. Finally, and in view of the extension of photonic networks single channel data rates beyond 40 Gb/s, the performance of the switch was simulated in terms of its critical parameters. The obtained results showed that full switching operation at 40 GHz or higher is feasible either by deploying gain recovery reduction techniques in bulk and quantum well SOAs or alternatively other technologically advanced optical devices, such as quantum dot SOAs.     

A Direct Kinematical Derivation of the Relativistic Sagnac Effect for Light or Matter Beams

The Sagnac time delay and the corresponding Sagnac phase shift, for relativistic matter and electromagnetic beams counter-propagating in a rotating interferometer, are deduced on the ground of relativistic kinematics. This purely kinematical approach allows to explain the universality of the effect, namely the fact that the Sagnac time difference does not depend on the physical nature of the interfering beams. The only prime requirement is that the counter-propagating beams have the same velocity with respect to any Einstein synchronized local co-moving inertial frame.     

Tunable optical filter based on Sagnac phase-shift using single optical ring resonator

In this paper, a single optical ring resonator connected to a Sagnac loop is used to demonstrate theoretically a novel narrow band optical filter response that is based on Sagnac phase-shift Δφ. The given filter structure permits the Sagnac rotation to control the filter response. It is shown that by changing the Sagnac rotation rate, we can tune the filter response for desired bandwidths. To increase the wavelength selectivity of the filter, the Sagnac phase-shift should be as small as possible that is limited by the loop length. For Δφ=0.1 rad, the obtained FWHM is 2.63 MHz for tuning loop length of 2 m. The simulation response agrees fairly with the recently reported experimental result.     

Sagnac型光学电压互感器传感单元非线性误差分析与抑制

基于Pockels效应的Sagnac型光学电压互感器的传感单元是由法拉第准直旋光器和BGO晶体构成,其中由偏振串扰引入的非线性误差是影响互感器测量精度及稳定性的主要误差来源。为了抑制传感单元存在的非线性误差,从主要光路器件及器件间的耦合点中分析产生偏振串扰的非理想耦合点及耦合机理,并提取表征该耦合点的误差特征参量,建立各非理想耦合点的传输模型,由此推导由传感单元偏振串扰引入的非线性误差模型,数值仿真并实验验证非理想偏振耦合对互感器性能的影响。在此基础上,提出了由BGO晶体敏感环境振动、温度波动等产生的非线性误差的抑制方法,实验结果验证了抑制方法的有效性。     

Relativistic Sagnac Effect and Ehrenfest Paradox

There seems to exist a dilemma in the literature as to the correct relativistic formula for the Sagnac phase-shift. The paper addresses this issue in the light of a novel, kinematically equivalent linear Sagnac-type thought experiment, which provides a vantage point from which the effect of rotation in the usual Sagnac effect can be analyzed. The question is shown to be related to the so-called rotating disc problem known as the Ehrenfest paradox. The relativistic formula for the Sagnac phase-shift seems to depend on the way the paradox is resolved. Kinematic resolution of the Ehrenfest paradox proposed by some authors predicts the usually quoted formula for the Sagnac delay but the resolution itself is shown to be based upon some implicit assumptions regarding the behaviour of solid bodies under acceleration. In order to have a greater insight into the problem, a second version of the thought experiment involving linear motion of a special type of a non-rigid frame of reference is discussed. It is shown by analogy that the usually quoted special relativistic formula for the Sagnac delay follows, provided the material of the disc matches the special type.