- The
Sagnac effect, also
called Sagnac interference,
named after French physicist Georges Sagnac, is a
phenomenon encountered in
interferometry that is...
-
Georges Sagnac (French pronunciation: [ʒɔʁʒ saɲak]; 14
October 1869 – 26
February 1928) was a
French physicist who lent his name to the
Sagnac effect,...
- A fibre-optic
gyroscope (FOG)
senses changes in
orientation using the
Sagnac effect, thus
performing the
function of a
mechanical gyroscope.
However its...
- beam and
sample beams travel along the same path.
Examples include the
Sagnac interferometer,
Zernike phase-contrast interferometer, and the
point diffraction...
- in
phase is used to
detect rotation. It
operates on the
principle of the
Sagnac effect which shifts the
nulls of the
internal standing wave
pattern in response...
-
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...
- thick-walled pipe
plugged with lead,
while the
other arm was free. The
Sagnac effect showed that
aether wind
caused by
earth drag
cannot be demonstrated...
- needed] (like the Mach–Zehnder interferometer,
Michelson interferometer, and
Sagnac interferometer),
interference manifests itself as
intensity oscillations...
- (satisfying Δx = 0), will they be
simultaneous in
another frame S′. The
Sagnac effect can be
considered a
manifestation of the
relativity of simultaneity...
-
since they have a
higher m****. Therefore, many high
precision experiments now
deploy atom
interferometers based on the
Sagnac effect. Atom interferometer...
