Integrated optical driver for interferometric optical gyroscopes

Author(s)
M. A. Tran, T. Komljenovic, J. C. Hulme, MJ Kennedy, D. J. Blumenthal, J. E. Bowers
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UCSB Gyro Integrated Optical Driver
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Journal/Conference Name
Optics Express

We present the first chip-scale “integrated optical driver” (IOD) that can interrogate with a sensing coil to realize an interferometric optical gyroscope. The chip comprises a light source, three photodiodes, two phase modulators and two 3-dB couplers within an area of 4.5 mm2. This allows for a significant reduction in size, weight, power consumption and cost of optical gyroscopes.

Research Areas
Silicon Photonics