Gyro Velocity Calculation for Interferometric Fiber Optic Gyroscope
A fiber optic gyroscope and interferometric technology, applied in Sagnac effect gyroscopes, gyroscope/steering sensing equipment, navigation, etc., can solve problems such as IFOG performance degradation
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[0011] refer to figure 1 , the interferometric fiber optic gyro system 100 includes an interferometric fiber optic gyroscope (IFOG) 110 . IFOG 110 may include fiber optic sensing coil 112 , beam splitting optics 114 and coupler 116 . The system 100 further includes a fiber optic light source 120 that provides optical input to the IFOG 110 . Beam splitting optics 114 split the optical input into two beams that propagate through sensing coil 112 in opposite directions. Upon returning to the point of entry, the two counter-propagating beams exit the sensing coil 112 and are recombined by the beam splitting optics 114 and undergo interference. When there is rotation about the axis of the sensing coil 112, the relative phases of the two exiting beams, and thus, the positions of their interference fringes, shift according to the angular velocity of the rotation. This is called a Sagnac phase shift. The Sagnac phase shift (φ) can be expressed as where L and D are the length and...
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