7 Result(s)
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He–Ne and Solid-State Ring Laser Gyroscopes
Commercial success of the He–Ne Ring Laser Gyroscope (RLG) began in the late 1980s and early 1990s. Since He–Ne RLG first demonstration in 1963 (Macek and Davis, Appl Phys Lett 2:67–68, 1963 [1]), a number of ind...
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Emerging Gyroscope Technologies
This book offers a wide overview of recent advances in gyroscope technologies. In this chapter these technologies are briefly summarized and compared. Very innovative technologies for angular rate sensing, whi...
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Physical Effects in Gyroscopes
Recently developed angular rate sensors are all based on two fundamental physical effects, i.e. Sagnac and Coriolis effects. In this chapter these physical effects are briefly discussed to allow the comprehens...
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Introduction
Inertial sensors, which allow to measure linear acceleration and angular velocity, are emerging as a crucial class of sensors and their applications are continuously increasing. They were first developed for a...
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Integrated Optical Gyroscopes
Integrated optics has led to the development of miniaturized optical devices that have very complex functionality on a single chip. A number of integrated optical devices, such as lasers, amplifiers, multiplex...
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Fiber Optic Gyroscopes
In the late 1960s, the development of the fiber optic gyroscope (FOG) was started at US Naval Research Laboratories, Washington (USA) (Brown RB, NRL Memorandum Report N1871, 1968). The exploitation of optical ...
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MEMS Gyroscopes
Micro-Electro-Mechanical Systems (MEMS) are very attractive devices which are exploited in a wide spectrum of application fields such as automotive, consumer electronics, medicine, biotechnology and so on. Glo...
