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Solid-state ring laser gyro behaving like its helium–neon counterpart at low rotation rates

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Abstract

Nonlinear couplings induced by crystal diffusion and spatial inhomogeneities of the gain have been suppressed over a broad range of angular velocities in a solid-state ring laser gyro by vibrating the gain crystal at 168kHz and 0.4μm along the laser cavity axis. This device behaves in the same way as a typical helium–neon ring laser gyro, with a zone of frequency lock-in (or dead band) resulting from the backscattering of light on the cavity mirrors. Furthermore, it is shown that the level of angular random-walk noise in the presence of mechanical dithering depends only on the quality of the cavity mirrors, as is the case with typical helium–neon ring laser gyros.

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