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Advanced version of an optical gyroscope cuts noise from scattered light.
Rice grains dwarf a gyroscope of a type that uses light rather than mechanical components. Credit: Pooya Vahidi
Engineers have designed the world’s smallest version of an optical gyroscope, a device that relies on light rather than moving parts, in a feat that could lead to models with much higher precision than comparable mechanical devices.
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Nature 562, 311 (2018)
doi: https://doi.org/10.1038/d41586-018-06992-z
