Optical Gyroscope (IMAGE)

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Optical Gyroscope

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These are schematics showing the far-field emission pattern of a microdisk cavity changing from symmetric to strongly asymmetric. Two cameras on the right monitor the change.

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Li Ge, physicist at the Graduate Center and Staten Island College, City University of New York

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