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Device for measuring a phase shift, which is not reciprocal, produced in a ring interferometer

CA 1208452 A · Owner: Thomson-Csf · Inventors: Puech, Claude; Papuchon, Michel; Arditty, Herve

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A ring-shaped interferometer comprising a phase shifting optical device which acts on the rays passing through the ring, this device containing an oscillator which delivers a periodic voltage of frequency 1/2 ? in which ? is the time taken by a ray to pass through the ring and a saw-tooth generator whose resonant frequency is slaved to a non reciprocal phase shift.

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  • Granted July 29, 1986. A Canadian patent filed before October 1, 1989 lasted 17 years from grant, so its term ended July 29, 2003.
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FiledNovember 5, 1981
GrantedJuly 29, 1986
Term endedJuly 29, 2003
Patent numberCA 1208452 A
Classification (IPC)G01N21/00 +1 more

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19821985198819911994199720002003Application filedNov 5, 1981Patent grantedJuly 29, 1986Term endedJuly 29, 2003

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