Physics Faculty Publications

Modified Sagnac experiment for measuring travel-time difference between counter-propagating light beams in a uniformly moving fiber

Document Type

Article

Publication Date

6-2003

Disciplines

Physics

Abstract

A fiber optic conveyor has been developed for investigating the travel-time difference between two counter-propagating light beams in uniformly moving fiber. Our finding is that there is a travel-time difference Δt=2vΔl/c2 in a fiber segment of length Δl moving with the source and detector at a speed v, whether the segment is moving uniformly or circularly.

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