7 December 2023 Barriers in the realization of anti-PT-symmetric optical gyroscope
Fei Huang, Ran Bi, Lei Wang, Kan Chen, Xiaowu Shu, Xuan She
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Abstract

We theoretically analyze the performances of the anti-PT-symmetric gyroscope near the exceptional point (EP). The results show that the frequency splitting caused by rotation is proportional to the square root of the fraction of power coupled from the bus to the ring. To fully exploit the potential of the EP, one needs to overcome two aspects of challenges. The first one is the preparation of sensitive unit, to detect the angular velocity of 104 deg / h with a micron-scale sensor; the allowable variation in the ratio of cavities’ radii is within the order of 10 − 16, which is exceedingly challenging in current nano fabrication. The other is controlling environmental disturbances. A temperature variation of 0.002°C would make the minimum detectable rotation rate up to 1010 deg / h, which is far beyond practically applications. Our analysis points out the difficulties in realizing this gyroscope, which has significant referential values to future work.

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Fei Huang, Ran Bi, Lei Wang, Kan Chen, Xiaowu Shu, and Xuan She "Barriers in the realization of anti-PT-symmetric optical gyroscope," Optical Engineering 62(12), 127101 (7 December 2023). https://doi.org/10.1117/1.OE.62.12.127101
Received: 10 February 2023; Accepted: 17 November 2023; Published: 7 December 2023
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KEYWORDS
Gyroscopes

Angular velocity

Optical engineering

Sensors

Fabrication

Velocity measurements

Integrated optics

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