Simple Phase Control System in Bidirectional Ring Laser

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Optical sensors are commonly used and most of them detect the variation of light intensity and then if there is the uctuation of light source intensity or change in propagation loss it causes measurement errors. A ring laser sensor is one of the potential candidates which are insensitive to such uctuation, but it has mainly two problems. One is lock-in effect and the other is insensitiveness to detect the sign (polarity) of the sensing signal. To solve these problems a new phase control system has been proposed. It consists of two polarizers, two quarter-wave plates, and one Faraday rotator. Using this system the phase is controlled by the simultaneous rotation of two quarter-wave plates.

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