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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jun. 03, 2014
Filed:
Sep. 06, 2011
Dominique Claire Fourguette, Los Angeles, CA (US);
M. Volkan Otugen, Dallas, TX (US);
Liane Marie Larocque, Los Angeles, CA (US);
Greg Alan Ritter, Hamburg, MI (US);
Jason Jeffrey Meeusen, Howell, MI (US);
Tindaro Ioppolo, Dallas, TX (US);
Dominique Claire Fourguette, Los Angeles, CA (US);
M. Volkan Otugen, Dallas, TX (US);
Liane Marie Larocque, Los Angeles, CA (US);
Greg Alan Ritter, Hamburg, MI (US);
Jason Jeffrey Meeusen, Howell, MI (US);
Tindaro Ioppolo, Dallas, TX (US);
Michigan Aerospace Corporation, Ann Arbor, MI (US);
Southern Methodist University, Dallas, TX (US);
Abstract
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.