The Electrodynamics of Rotating Slow-Light Waveguides with Structural Disorder – Optical Gyroscopes, Degeneracy Splitting, and the Creation of a Dead-Zone
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The effect of structural disorder on the electrodynamics of slowly and rigidly rotating coupled resonators circular waveguide is studied, in the rotating system rest-frame. When stationary and ideal, this waveguide supports degenerate modes. It is shown that slow rigid rotation as well as structural disorder can be viewed as two competing symmetry-breaking events. Hence both cause splitting of mode degeneracy. The system can be used as a gyroscope as long as the symmetry breaking due to rotation is stronger than that due to disorder. This causes a creation of a dead-zone in the gyroscope operation curve.
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