Publications

JOURNAL AND CONFERENCE ARTICLES

Fiber-optic gyroscopes

Hongxiang Jia, Sophie LaRochelle, Martin Bernier, and Michel J.F. Digonnet, "Stable Multi-Wavelength Fiber Lasers for High-Precision Fiber-Optic Gyroscopes," Journal of Lightwave Technology, September 2025, doi: 10.1109/JLT.2025.3594290

Hongxiang Jia, Jonathan M. Wheeler, Taylor Iantosca, and Michel J.F. Digonnet, "Low-drift fiber-optic gyroscope interrogated with multiple broadened semiconductor lasers," Journal of Lightwave Technology 42, July 2024. doi: 10.1109/JLT.2024.3376511

Jonathan M. Wheeler, and Michel J. F. Digonnet, "A low-drift laser-driven FOG suitable for trans-Pacific inertial navigation," IEEE J. of Lightwave Technology, November 2022. doi: 10.1109/JLT.2022.3201189

Jonathan M. Wheeler, Jacob N. Chamoun, Vinayak Dangui, and Michel J. F. Digonnet, "Analytic method for estimating aircraft fix displacement from gyroscope’s Allan-deviation parameters," IEEE Sensors J., February 2022. doi:10.1109/jsen.2022.3145012

Therice A. Morris, Adele N. Zawada, Devin Garcia, Jonathan M. Wheeler, and Michel J. F. Digonnet, "Optimization of the angular random walk in laser-driven fiber-optic gyroscopes," IEEE Sensors J., December 2021. doi 10.1109/JSEN.2021.3136087

Jonathan M. Wheeler, Jacob N. Chamoun, and Michel J. F. Digonnet, "Optimizing coherence suppression in a laser broadened by phase modulation with noise," IEEE J. of Lightwave Technology, May 2021. doi 10.1109/JLT.2021.3061938

Therice A. Morris, Jonathan M. Wheeler, Matthew J. Grant, and Michel J. F. Digonnet, "Advances in optical gyroscopes," Proc. SPIE Vol. 11199, Seventh European Workshop on Optical Fibre Sensors, August 2019. doi.org/10.1117/12.2542713

Silicon nitride resonant gyroscopes

A. N. Zawada, W. Jin, N. Abrams, A. Feshali, M. Paniccia and M. J. F. Digonnet, "Chip-Scale Resonant Optical Gyroscope With Near Earth-Rate Sensitivity," in IEEE Sensors Journal, April, 2025. doi: 10.1109/JSEN.2025.3540400.

Adele N. Zawada, Warren Jin, Nathan Abrams, Avi Feshali, Mario Paniccia, Michel J. F. Digonnet, "Passive chip-scale resonant optical gyroscope with sub-20-deg/hour/√Hz performance," Quantum Sensing, Imaging, and Precision Metrology,March 2024. https://doi.org/10.1117/12.3012146

Adele N. Zawada, Avi Feshali, Warren Jin, Nathan Abrams, Mario Paniccia, and Michel J. F. Digonnet, "High-Q silicon nitride resonator gyroscope interrogated with broadband light," Quantum Sensing, Imaging, and Precision Metrology, March 2023. https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2657332

M. J. Grant, P. B. Vigneron, A. Feshali, W. Jin, N. Abrams, M. Paniccia, and M. J. F. Digonnet, "Chip-scale gyroscope using silicon-nitride waveguide resonator with a Q factor of 100 million," Proc. SPIE Vol. 12016, 2022. doi: 10.1117/12.2617219

A. N. Zawada, A. Feshali, W. Jin, N. Abrams, M. Paniccia, and M. J. F. Digonnet, "High-Q silicon nitride resonator gyroscope interrogated with broadband light," Proc. SPIE  Vol. 12447, 2023. doi: 10.1117/12.2657332

Diaphragm-based MEMS sensors

C. G. Valdez, S. A. Bongarz, A. R. Kroo, A. J. Miller, M. J. F. Digonnet, D. A. B. Miller, and O. Solgaard, “Three-Wave Interaction Grating Coupler with Sub-Decibel Insertion Loss at Normal Incidence,” arXiv:2506.19242, 2025. [Online].

Behrad Habib Afshar, and Michel J. F. Digonnet, "Compact diaphragm-based optical accelerometers with µg/√Hz resolution,"  Opt. Lett. vol. 45, 3933-3936, July 2020. doi.org/10.1364/OL.395737

Behrad Habib Afshar, and Michel J. F. Digonnet, "Spring-loaded diaphragm-based fiber acoustic sensor," IEEE J. of Lightwave Technology vol. 37, 4830-4837, Sept. 2019. 10.1109/JLT.2019.2923369

Exceptional point sensors

Hongxiang Jia, Mohammed Azzouz, Christopher Mitchell, Giulia Socolof, Behzad Moslehi, and Michel JF Digonnet, "Modeling an exceptional point gyroscope utilizing a single ring resonator and a loss-modulated grating," Optical Sensing and Precision Metrology, March 2025. doi: 10.1117/12.3054206

Matthew J. Grant, and Michel J. F. Digonnet, "Rotation sensitivity and shot-noise-limited detection in an exceptional-point coupled-ring gyroscope," Opt. Lett. vol. 46, 2936-2939, 2021. https://doi.org/10.1364/OL.423700

Matthew J. Grant, and Michel J. F. Digonnet, "Loss-gain coupled ring resonator gyroscope," in Optical, Opto-Atomic, and Entanglement-Enhanced Precision Metrology, Proc. SPIE, March 2019. doi 10.1117/12.2515657

Slow-light in fibers

B. Van Esbeen, C.W. Chen, T. Boilard, M. Bernier, C. Caucheteur, M. Śmietana, J. Mrazek, M. Kamradek, A. Stancalie, R. Mihalcea, D. Negut, and M.J.F. Digonnet, "Detection of gamma irradiation with milligray resolution using a slow-light fiber Bragg grating," Opt. Lett. 50(13), 4398–4401 (2025).

C.W. Chen, E. Balliu, L. Talbot, T. Boilard, B. Meehan, T.W. Hawkins, J. Ballato, M. Bernier, and M.J.F. Digonnet, "Calibration of a high-resolution slow-light fiber-Bragg-grating sensor for temperature measurements of laser-cooled fibers," IEEE J. Lightwave Technol. 42(20), 7391–7397 (2024).

K. Z. Aghaie and M. J. Digonnet, "Sensitivity limit of a coupled-resonator optical waveguide gyroscope with separate input/output coupling," JOSA B, Vol. 32, 339-344, 2015. https://doi.org/10.1364/JOSAB.32.000339

G. Skolianos, A. Arora, M. Bernier, and M. J. Digonnet, "Photonics sensing at the thermodynamic limit," Opt. Lett., vol. 42, 2018-2021, 2017. https://doi.org/10.1364/OL.42.002018

Arushi Arora, Mina Esmaeelpour, Martin Bernier, and Michel J. F. Digonnet, “High-resolution slow-light fiber Bragg grating temperature sensor with phase-sensitive detection,” Opt. Lett. Vol. 43, 3337–3340, 2018. https://doi.org/10.1364/OL.43.003337

Pierre-Baptiste Vigneron, Tommy Boilard, Enkeleda Balliu, Anna L. Broome, Martin Bernier, and Michel J. F. Digonnet, “Loss-compensated slow-light fiber Bragg grating with 22-km/s group velocity,” Opt. Lett. Vol. 45, 3179–3182, 2020. https://doi.org/10.1364/OL.392808

Arushi Arora, Adele N. Zawada, Martin Bernier, and Michel J. F. Digonnet, “High-resolution slow-light fiber-Bragg-grating microphone and hydrophone,” IEEE Sensors J. Vol. 23, 8391–8399, 2023. DOI: 10.1109/JSEN.2023.3242934

Optical cooling of fibers and fiber lasers

C.W. Chen, E. Balliu, B. Meehan, T.W. Hawkins, J. Ballato, P.D. Dragic, T. Boilard, M. Bernier, and M.J.F. Digonnet, "Anti-Stokes-fluorescence cooling in commercial Yb-doped silica fibers," Appl. Phys. Lett. 2025

C.W. Chen, B. Meehan, T.W. Hawkins, J. Ballato, T. Boilard, M. Bernier, and M.J.F. Digonnet, "Emerging trends in laser-cooling of Yb-doped aluminosilicate fibers," in revision at IEEE J. Lightwave Technol. 43 (14), 6839–6845 (2025).

C.W. Chen, B. Meehan, T.W. Hawkins, J. Ballato, P.D. Dragic, T. Boilard, M. Bernier, and M.J.F. Digonnet, "Optical cooling of a Yb-doped alumino-phosphosilicate fiber in air by −250 mK," Opt. Lett. 49(16), 4501–4504 (2024). [Link]

B. Meehan, A.R. Pietros, C.W. Chen, T.W. Hawkins, M. Engholm, P.D. Dragic, M.J.F. Digonnet, and J. Ballato*, "Impact of Yb2+ on the anti-Stokes fluorescence cooling performance of Yb-doped silica fibers," Opt. Mater. Express 14(8), 2095–2111 (2024).

Enkeleda Balliu, Bailey Meehan, Mary Ann Cahoon, Thomas W. Hawkins, John Ballato, Peter D. Dragic, Tommy Boilard, Lauris Talbot, Martin Bernier, and Michel J. F. Digonnet, "High-efficiency radiation-balanced Yb-doped silica fiber laser with 200-mW output," Opt. Lett. 49(8), 2021-2024 (2024).

P.-B. Vigneron, J. Knall, T. Boilard, M. Bernier, and M. J. F. Digonnet, "Demonstration of anti-Stokes cooling in Yb-doped ZBLAN fibers at atmospheric pressure," Opt. Lett Vol. 44, 2338-2341, May 2021. 10.1364/OL.44.002338

J. Knall, M. Engholm, T. Boilard, M. Bernier, P.-B. Vigneron, N. Yu, P. D. Dragic, J. Ballato, and M. J. F. Digonnet, "Radiation-Balanced Silica Fiber Laser," Optica, Vol. 8, June 2021. doi.org/10.1364/OPTICA.425115

J. M. Knall, M. Engholm, T. Boilard, M. Bernier, and M. J. F. Digonnet, "Radiation-Balanced Silica Fiber Amplifier," Phys. Rev. Lett. Vol. 127, 013903, July 2021. DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.127.013903

"Stanford researchers develop first self-cooling laser made with a silica fiber," Stanford News, March 2021. https://news.stanford.edu/2021/03/16/first-self-cooling-fiber-laser-made-silica/

Nanjie Yu, John Ballato, Michel J. F. Digonnet, and Peter D. Dragic, “Optically managing thermal energy in high-power Yb-doped fiber lasers and amplifiers: A brief review,” Curr. Opt. Photon. Vol. 6, 521–549, 2022. https://doi.org/10.3807/COPP.2022.6.6.521

BOOKS

Michel J. F. Digonnet, Rare-Earth-Doped Fiber Lasers and Amplifiers, Marcel Dekker, NY, 2000.

Eric Udd, and Michel J. F. Digonnet, Design and Development of Fiber Optic Gyroscopes, SPIE Press Book, WA, 2019.

Rare-Earth-Doped Fiber Lasers and Amplifiers, Taylor and Francis, UK, 2024.