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Sagnac effect

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application in optical gyroscopes

  • gyroscope
    In gyroscope: Optical gyroscopes

    …devices are based on the Sagnac effect, first demonstrated by French scientist Georges Sagnac in 1913. In Sagnac’s demonstration, a beam of light was split such that part traveled clockwise and part counterclockwise around a rotating platform. Although both beams traveled within a closed loop, the beam traveling in the…

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