Recent Advances in Integrated Microphotonic and Fiber-Optic Gyroscopes
A special issue of Sensors (ISSN 1424-8220). This special issue belongs to the section "Optical Sensors".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (31 January 2021) | Viewed by 7381
Special Issue Editor
Interests: photonics; optoelectronics; sensors; chemosensors
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Dear Colleagues,
For several decades, gyroscopes have been key sensors for attitude control and autonomous guidance of a wide range of vehicles, such as military and civil airplanes, military ships, submarines, satellites, space launchers, long-range ballistic missiles, and so on. More recently, other gyro application areas have emerged, i.e., robotics, medical instruments, automotive, and consumer electronics.
Photonic gyroscopes, all based on the Sagnac effect, are already on the market with a very good performance (resolution down to 0.01 °/h or better), but they are now facing several challenges, e.g., miniaturization and cost/power consumption reduction, enabling new intriguing applications.
The Special Issue will provide a forum for the latest research activities in the field of integrated microphotonic and fiber-optic gyroscopes and their applications. Both review articles and original research papers are solicited in, though not limited to, the following areas:
- Micophotonic gyros based on ring lasers;
- Micophotonic gyros based on passive high-Q resonators;
- Ultra-high-Q optical cavities intended for gyro applications;
- Interferometric micophotonic gyros;
- Emerging concepts of micophotonic gyros;
- Resonant fiber-optic gyros;
- Interferometric fiber-optic gyros;
- Fiber-optic gyros based on optically pumped ring lasers;
- Readout techniques for resonant and interferometric gyros;
- Novel applications of integrated microphotonic and fiber-optic gyroscopes.
Dr. Francesco Dell’Olio
Guest Editor
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Keywords
- Photonics
- Gyrosope
- Integrated microfotonics
- Optical fibers
- Inertial sensors
