We report on a study of performance of both active and passive optical gyroscopes based on high finesse crystalline whispering gallery mode (WGM) resonators. We show that the sensitivity of the devices is ultimately limited due to the nonlinearity of the resonator host material. A gyroscope characterized with 0.02 deg/hr^1/2 angle random walk and 2 deg/hr bias drift is demonstrated.
Protein function is reliant on structural flexibility and this flexibility is slaved to the surrounding solvent. Here we
discuss how the exposed surface of the protein influences the solvent dynamics and thereby influences the protein's own
structural dynamics. We discuss measurements of the THz absorption of water in the presence of hydrophilic and
hydrophobic surfaces.
Coherent Beam Combining (CBC) technology holds the promise of enabling laser systems with very high power and near-ideal beam quality. In this work we propose and demonstrate a novel CBC servo system using optical phase lock loops for phase control. This servo system is based on entirely electronic components and, consequently, can be considerably more compact and less expensive compared to servo systems made of optical phase/frequency shifters. In the proof-of-concept experiments we have combined two 100mW 1064nm commercial semiconductor lasers with the filled-aperture approach at an efficiency of 94% and also two 50mW 1538nm commercial semiconductor lasers using the tiled-aperture approach with a strehl ratio of 0.9. In addition, we also present a theoretical consideration of the influence of various sources of noise on the combining efficiency of a cascaded filled-aperture CBC system.
We propose to use onion-like resonators to approximate spherically symmetric Bragg resonators. Such Bragg onion resonators have been realized in silicon based material systems. We develop an analytical theory that calculates the resonant frequencies and the quality factors of the onion cavity modes. We demonstrate that it is possible to achieve Q factors exceeding 5 x 106 in a cavity of a few microns in dimension. The onion resonators allow full control over the spontaneous emission process, which may lead to the thresholdless lasers. The onion resonators may also find many other applications in cavity quantum electrodynamics.
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