Abstract: A ring laser gyroscope radiation-resistant detector lens system for mounting on a ring laser gyroscope body having a resonant cavity. The ring laser gyroscope body has CW and CCW counterpropagating light beams propagating in a plane normal to the rate input axis of the ring laser gyroscope. The ring laser gyroscope detector lens system comprises a means for extracting a component of each of the CW and a CCW light beams from the cavity and for combining the extracted CW and CCW beams to form a substantially circular interference light source. A planar array of detector element receives light from an objective lens means responsive to the interference light source. The objective lens means is a cylindrical lens that forms an elliptically-shaped interference light source pattern on a first and second adjacent pair of detectors in an array of four detector elements.

Abstract: A method of fabricating multiple layer, solid, thin films on a substrate having a surface to be coated, the method providing control over the thickness, stoichiometry, and morphology of each separate layer formed by a method comprising steps: A. forming a first ion beam from an inert gas; B, bombarding a target surface with said first ion beam in a vacuum chamber to generate a vapor cloud composed of the target material atoms by the process of sputtering; C. adjusting the respective positions of the substrate surface for coating and the target surface to promote the condensation of the vapor upon the substrate surface for coating; D. forming a second ion beam, the second ion beam's ions being formed from a mixture of inert and reactive gases; E.

Abstract: A sensor for measuring dynamic variations in axial strain in a cable wherein a light source is positioned intermediate a pair of light detectors. The sensor is capable of sensing the effects of dynamic axial tensile and compressive forces in the cable over a wide range of frequencies.