Wavefront Control for Coherent Electromagnetic Radiation in an Optical Ring Resonator

The paper investigates whether it is possible to employ the Fizeau effect in order to control the phase of the laser radiation wavefront in an optical ring resonator. This method may potentially solve the issue of frequency lock-in, also known as mode locking, occurring in laser gyroscopes. We analysed the effect that a non-reciprocal optical element consisting of two linearly moving prisms has on the gyroscope output. We present a numerical assessment of the efficiency of our method

The study was supported by RFBR (grants no. 16-02-00488 A, no. 16-08-00618 A)

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