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He–Ne and Solid-State Ring Laser Gyroscopes

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Commercial success of the He–Ne Ring Laser Gyroscope (RLG) began in the late 1980s and early 1990s. Since He–Ne RLG first demonstration in 1963 (Macek and Davis, Appl Phys Lett 2:67–68, 1963 [1]), a number of industrial companies have developed a great research effort for RLG technology improvement so that this optical sensor has become a widely diffused commercial device. For instance, navigation systems based on He–Ne RLGs has been installed on over 50 different aircrafts (Barbour, AiAA Guidance, Navigation and Control Conference, Montreal, Canada, 2001 [2]). Since several years, He–Ne RLG dominates the high-performance gyros market.

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Armenise, M.N. (2010). He–Ne and Solid-State Ring Laser Gyroscopes. In: Advances in Gyroscope Technologies. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-15494-2_3

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