Whispering-gallery-mode-based seismometer

Fourguette, Dominique Claire; Otugen, M Volkan; Larocque, Liane Marie; Ritter, Greg Aan; Meeusen, Jason Jeffrey; Ioppolo, Tindaro

Title: Whispering-gallery-mode-based seismometer

Patent · Tue Jun 03 00:00:00 EDT 2014

OSTI ID:1133626

Fourguette, Dominique Claire; Otugen, M Volkan; Larocque, Liane Marie; Ritter, Greg Aan; Meeusen, Jason Jeffrey; Ioppolo, Tindaro

A whispering-gallery-mode-based seismometer provides for receiving laser light into an optical fiber, operatively coupling the laser light from the optical fiber into a whispering-gallery-mode-based optical resonator, operatively coupling a spring of a spring-mass assembly to a housing structure; and locating the whispering-gallery-mode-based optical resonator between the spring-mass assembly and the housing structure so as to provide for compressing the whispering-gallery-mode-based optical resonator between the spring-mass assembly and the housing structure responsive to a dynamic compression force from the spring-mass assembly responsive to a motion of the housing structure relative to an inertial frame of reference.

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Research Organization:: Michigan Aerospace Corporation, Ann Arbor, MI (USA)

Sponsoring Organization:: USDOE

DOE Contract Number:: FG02-08ER85099

Assignee:: Michigan Aerospace Corporation (Ann Arbor, MI); Southern Methodist University (Dallas, TX)

Patent Number(s):: 8,743,372

Application Number:: 13/226,466

OSTI ID:: 1133626

Country of Publication:: United States

Language:: English

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