1. 3 m × 3 m heterolithic passive resonant gyroscope with cavity length stabilization.
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Zhang, Fenglei, Liu, Kui, Li, Zongyang, Feng, Xiaohua, Li, Ke, Ye, Yanxia, Sun, Yunlong, He, Leilei, Schreiber, K Ulrich, Luo, Jun, Lu, Zehuang, and Zhang, Jie
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GYROSCOPES ,OPTICAL gyroscopes ,GRAVITATIONAL waves ,MAGNITUDE (Mathematics) ,ROTATIONAL motion - Abstract
Large-scale high sensitivity laser gyroscopes have important applications for ground-based and space-based gravitational wave detection. We report on the development of a 3 m × 3 m heterolithic passive resonant gyroscope (HUST-1) which is installed on the ground of a cave laboratory. We operate the HUST-1 on different longitudinal cavity modes and the rotation sensitivity reaches 1.6 × 10
−9 rad s−1 Hz−1/2 above 1 Hz. The drift of the cavity length is one of the major sensitivity limits for our gyroscope in the low frequency regime. By locking cavity length to an ultra-stable reference laser, we achieve a cavity length stability of 5.6 × 10−9 m Hz−1/2 at 0.1 mHz, a four orders of magnitude improvement over the unconstrained cavity in the low frequency regime. We stabilize the cavity length of a large-scale heterolithic passive resonant gyroscope through active feedback and realize long-term operation. The rotation sensitivity reaches 1.7 × 10−7 rad s−1 Hz−1/2 at 0.1 mHz, a three orders of magnitude improvement over the unconstrained cavity, which is no longer limited by the cavity length drift in this frequency range. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]- Published
- 2020
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