Fiber ring laser with flint glass fiber and its sensor applications

A new fiber ring laser has been proposed which is composed of a laser diode amplifier, a flint glass fiber as a sensing element, and a Faraday cell as a bias element, and applied to a frequency-domain sensor in which nonreciprocal effects such as current or rotation can be measured from a frequency change in the beat signal. A sign of current or rotation direction can be determined and a lock-in phenomenon is avoided owing to the bias element.