The condition and concept of confocality for ring resonators are considered. The advantages and limitations of such a design and its prospects for application in passive optical gyros are considered. It is also shown that earlier proposed scheme with toroidal reflecting surfaces can be substituted by the ring cavity with the internal axially symmetrical lens (GRIN-lens).
The condition and concept of confocality for ring resonators is considered. The results of the development of a compact (meridional cross-sectional area less than 2 cm2) monoblock ring resonator designed to operate as a sensitive element of an optical gyroscope are presented. A prototype batch of these resonators were studied experimentally. In particular, the shape of the reflecting surfaces of ring confocal resonators and their mutual orientation were measured. The problem of stable input and output of light from monoblock ring confocal resonators and the possibility of their integration into the design of an optical resonator gyroscope are also considered.
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