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Radiation-Balanced Silica Fiber Amplifier by Knall, Jennifer M., Engholm, Magnus, Boilard, Tommy, Bernier, Martin, Digonnet, Michel J. F.

“…We report what we believe to be the first radiation-balanced fiber amplifier-a device that provides optical gain while experiencing no temperature rise. The…”
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Resonant Fiber Optic Gyroscope Using an Air-Core Fiber by Terrel, M. A., Digonnet, M. J. F., Shanhui Fan

“…Air-core photonic bandgap fibers (PBFs) have great potential for the resonant fiber-optic gyroscope (RFOG), because they reduce both the Kerr-induced drift and…”
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Thermal Sensitivity of the Birefringence of Air-Core Fibers and Implications for the RFOG by Xiang Zhao, Louveau, Joy, Chamoun, Jacob, Digonnet, Michel J. F.

“…We present an analytical model of the drift in the resonant fiber optic gyroscope (RFOG) caused by thermally induced changes in the fiber beat length L B (T)…”
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Reduced Thermal Sensitivity of a Fiber-Optic Gyroscope Using an Air-Core Photonic-Bandgap Fiber by Blin, S., Hyang Kyun Kim, Digonnet, M.J.F., Kino, G.S.

“…A 6.5-fold reduction in thermal sensitivity is demonstrated experimentally in a fiber-optic gyroscope made of a 235-m length of quadrupolar-wound air-core…”
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Quasi-CW Pumping of a Single-Frequency Fiber Amplifier for Efficient SHG in PPLN Crystals with Reduced Thermal Load by Balliu, Enkeleda, Engholm, Magnus, Digonnet, Michel, Nilsson, Hans-Erik

“…Single-frequency lasers are essential for high-resolution spectroscopy and sensing applications as they combine high-frequency stability with low noise and…”
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Compact Single-Frequency MOPA Using a Silica Fiber Highly Doped with Yb3 by Balliu, Enkeleda, Engholm, Magnus, Digonnet, Michel, Coetzee, Riaan, Elgcrona, Gunnar, Nilsson, Hans-Erik

“…We report on a single-frequency fiber master oscillator power amplifier utilizing a polarization-maintaining step-index fiber with an Al/Ce/F core-glass…”
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Haltere-Like Optoelectromechanical Gyroscope by Kilic, Onur, Hyejun Ra, Akkaya, Onur Can, Digonnet, Michel J. F., Solgaard, Olav

“…We report an optoelectromechanical vibratory gyroscope inspired by halteres of dipteran flies. The gyroscope utilizes optical displacement sensing to achieve a…”
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Room-Temperature Stable Generation of 19 Watts of Single-Frequency 532-nm Radiation in a Periodically Poled Lithium Tantalate Crystal by Sinha, S., Hum, D.S., Urbanek, K.E., Yin-wen Lee, Digonnet, M.J.F., Fejer, M.M., Byer, R.L.

“…We report on a system that produces 19 W of diffraction-limited radiation at 532 nm through single-pass frequency doubling of the output of a 1064 nm Yb 3+…”
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Design of High-Power Radiation-Balanced Silica Fiber Lasers With a Doped Core and Cladding by Knall, Jennifer M., Digonnet, Michel J. F.

“…A model of laser cooling in a fiber with a doped cladding shows that a radiation-balanced fiber laser (RBFL) made of silica can produce substantial output…”
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A Low-Drift Laser-Driven FOG Suitable for Trans-Pacific Inertial Navigation by Wheeler, Jonathan M., Digonnet, Michel J. F.

“…We report a laser-driven fiber-optic gyroscope (FOG) with an angle random walk of 0.9 mdeg/√h, an Allan-deviation minimum of 4.9 mdeg/h, and an Allan-deviation…”
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Self-Aligning Optical MEMS Acoustic Sensors With nPa/√Hz Resolution by Afshar, Behrad Habib, Digonnet, Michel J. F.

“…A critical step in the large-scale assembly of optical interferometric microsensors is the ability to align their tiny interferometers reproducibly. We report…”
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Low-Drift Fiber-Optic Gyroscope Interrogated With Multiple Broadened Semiconductor Lasers by Jia, Hongxiang, Wheeler, Jonathan M., Iantosca, Taylor, Digonnet, Michel J. F.

“…We achieved the best performance reported so far for a laser-driven fiber-optic gyroscope (FOG), namely a measured angular random walk (ARW) of…”
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Broadened-Laser-Driven Polarization-Maintaining Hollow-Core Fiber Optic Gyroscope by Morris, Therice A., Digonnet, Michel J. F.

“…A state-of-the-art fiber optic gyroscope (FOG) using a 250-m quadrupolar-wound coil of polarization-maintaining hollow-core fiber (HCF) interrogated by a…”
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Optimizing Coherence Suppression in a Laser Broadened by Phase Modulation With Noise by Wheeler, Jonathan M., Chamoun, Jacob N., Digonnet, Michel J. F.

“…Phase noise can be modulated onto the output of a laser with an electro-optic phase modulator (EOM) to create a highly incoherent broadened source with low…”
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Linearly polarized, 3.35 W narrow-linewidth, 1150 nm fiber master oscillator power amplifier for frequency doubling to the yellow by Sinha, Supriyo, Urbanek, Karel E, Hum, David S, Digonnet, Michel J F, Fejer, Martin M, Byer, Robert L

“…A high-power linearly polarized Yb-doped silica fiber master oscillator power amplifier at 1150 nm is reported. It produced 3.35 W cw and 2.33 W of average…”
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Discrete Model of Backscattering Drift in Fiber Optic Gyroscopes by Morris, Therice A., Digonnet, Michel J. F.

“…We present a new model of backscattering drift in a fiber-optic gyroscope (FOG) using square-wave modulation and demodulation and interrogated with light of…”
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Spring-Loaded Diaphragm-Based Fiber Acoustic Sensor by Afshar, Behrad Habib, Digonnet, Michel J. F.

“…We report a new fiber sensor utilizing a spring-loaded circular diaphragm to detect extremely weak acoustic waves. When exposed to an acoustic wave, the…”
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Analytic Method for Estimating Aircraft Fix Displacement From Gyroscope's Allan-Deviation Parameters by Wheeler, Jonathan M., Chamoun, Jacob N., Dangui, Vinayak, Digonnet, Michel J. F.

“…The noise and drift requirements for a navigation-grade gyroscope are widely known, yet there is no simple analytic model of how the noise and drift of a…”
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High-Resolution Slow-Light Fiber-Bragg-Grating Microphone and Hydrophone by Arora, Arushi, Zawada, Adele N., Bernier, Martin, Digonnet, Michel J.F.

“…This paper reports a slow-light fiber-Bragg-grating (FBG) pressure sensor that functions both as a microphone and a hydrophone and pushes the limit of acoustic…”
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Modular Aptamer Switches for the Continuous Optical Detection of Small‐Molecule Analytes in Complex Media by Hariri, Amani A., Cartwright, Alyssa P., Dory, Constantin, Gidi, Yasser, Yee, Steven, Thompson, Ian A. P., Fu, Kaiyu X., Yang, Kiyoul, Wu, Diana, Maganzini, Nicolò, Feagin, Trevor, Young, Brian E., Afshar, Behrad Habib, Eisenstein, Michael, Digonnet, Michel J. F., Vuckovic, Jelena, Soh, H. Tom

“…Aptamers are a promising class of affinity reagents because signal transduction mechanisms can be built into the reagent, so that they can directly produce a…”
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