| Title | Light-Powered Gyroscope is World's Smallest | |
| Date | Thursday April 02 2015, @05:42PM | |
| Author | janrinok | |
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| from the I-put-my-gyroscope-down-and-now-I-can't-find-it dept. | ||
A pair of light waves - one zipping clockwise the other counterclockwise around a microscopic track - may hold the key to creating the world's smallest gyroscope: one a fraction of the width of a human hair. By bringing this essential technology down to an entirely new scale, a team of applied physicists hopes to enable a new generation of phenomenally compact gyroscope-based navigation systems, among other intriguing applications.
"We have found a new detection scheme that may lead to the world's smallest gyroscope," said Li Ge, a physicist at the Graduate Center and Staten Island College, City University of New York. "Though these so-called optical gyroscopes are not new, our approach is remarkable both in its super-small size and potential sensitivity."
[Abstract]: http://www.opticsinfobase.org/optica/abstract.cfm?uri=optica-2-4-323
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