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    elicited by rotation. The Sagnac effect manifests itself in a setup called a ring interferometer or Sagnac interferometer. A beam of light is split and...
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  • common-path interferometer is a class of interferometers in which the reference beam and sample beams travel along the same path. Examples include the Sagnac interferometer...
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  • version of the Michelson–Morley experiment and the Sagnac-Interferometer. It measured the Sagnac effect due to Earth's rotation, and thus tests the theories...
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  • diffraction interferometer Rayleigh interferometer Sagnac interferometer Schlieren interferometer (phase-shifting) Shearing interferometer (lateral and...
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    common-path interferometer is a class of interferometer in which the reference beam and sample beam travel along the same path. Fig. 4 illustrates the Sagnac interferometer...
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  • common-path interferometer, one arm of which was enclosed by a thick-walled pipe plugged with lead, while the other arm was free. The Sagnac effect showed...
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  • phenomenon which is at the basis of interferometers and ring laser gyroscopes developed since the 1970s. Sagnac was born at Périgueux and entered the...
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    A fibre-optic gyroscope (FOG) senses changes in orientation using the Sagnac effect, thus performing the function of a mechanical gyroscope. However its...
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  • "Optical Ramsey spectroscopy in a rotating frame: Sagnac effect in a matter-wave interferometer". Phys. Rev. Lett. 67 (2): 177–180. Bibcode:1991PhRvL...
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  • interferometer. In linear optical interferometers[clarification needed] (like the Mach–Zehnder interferometer, Michelson interferometer, and Sagnac interferometer)...
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  • Its mass is 7.1 kg. The main instrument on board QUESS is a "Sagnac effect" interferometer. This is a device that generates pairs of entangled photons...
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    H.; Schnabel, R. (2010). "Quantum Enhancement of the Zero-Area Sagnac Interferometer Topology for Gravitational Wave Detection". Phys. Rev. Lett. 104...
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    Schnabel, Roman (June 22, 2010). "Quantum Enhancement of the Zero-Area Sagnac Interferometer Topology for Gravitational Wave Detection". Physical Review Letters...
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  • averaged over t. In optical interferometers such as the Michelson interferometer, Mach–Zehnder interferometer, or Sagnac interferometer, one splits an electric...
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  • since they have a higher mass. Therefore, many high precision experiments now deploy atom interferometers based on the Sagnac effect. Atom interferometer...
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    aether theory predict the Sagnac effect, absent in Ritz's ballistic theory or in Stokes's theory of aether drag. 1913 – Georges Sagnac observes the effect named...
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    elements were aligned. Topologically, the light path was that of a Sagnac interferometer with an even number of reflections in each light path. This offered...
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  • topology of the light path was that of a Sagnac interferometer with an odd number of reflections. Sagnac interferometers offer excellent contrast and fringe...
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  • quantities in laser interferometers, such as in Sagnac interferometers measuring rotation changes and in Michelson interferometers observing gravitational...
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  • demonstration of the luminiferous aether by an interferometer in uniform rotation], Comptes Rendus, 157: 708–710 Sagnac, Georges (1913), "Sur la preuve de la réalité...
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  • holography, the Sagnac gyroscope, radio antenna arrays, optical coherence tomography and telescope interferometers (Astronomical optical interferometers and radio...
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  • object's rest frame 1913 – Georges Sagnac uses a rotating MMX device and receives a clearly positive result. The so-called Sagnac effect was considered excellent...
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  • 1966. Retrieved 2007-03-25. Sagnac, Georges (1913). "The demonstration of the luminiferous aether by an interferometer in uniform rotation" . Comptes...
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    demonstration of the luminiferous aether by an interferometer in uniform rotation], Comptes Rendus, 157: 708–710 Sagnac, Georges (1913), "Sur la preuve de la réalité...
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  • rotating glass plates between the mirrors of a common-path interferometer set up in a static Sagnac configuration. If the glass plates behave as new sources...
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    between the two beams can be measured by an interferometer and is proportional to the rate of rotation (Sagnac effect). In practice, at low rotation rates...
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  • 1935, a common-path interferometer was used. Massive lead blocks were installed on both sides of only one leg of the interferometer. This arrangement should...
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    1966. Retrieved 2007-03-25. Sagnac, Georges (1913). "The demonstration of the luminiferous aether by an interferometer in uniform rotation" . Comptes...
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    Giallorenzi, Thomas G. (1979). "Sensitivity analysis of the Sagnac-effect optical-fiber ring interferometer". Applied Optics. 18 (6): 915–931. Bibcode:1979ApOpt...
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    spectral imaging (CASSI), image mapping spectrometry (IMS), and multispectral Sagnac interferometry (MSI). However, computational effort and manufacturing costs...
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