Navigation-grade resonant fiber-optic gyroscope using ultra-simple white-light multibeam interferometry

Shuangxiang Zhao; Qingwen Liu; Yuanyuan Liu; Huilian Ma; Zuyuan He

doi:10.1364/PRJ.443496

[1] E. J. Post. Sagnac effect. Rev. Mod. Phys., 39, 475-493(1967).

[2] H. C. Lefevre. The Fiber-Optic Gyroscope(2014).

[3] R. Luo, Y. Li, S. Deng, C. Peng, Z. Li. Effective suppression of residual coherent phase error in a dual-polarization fiber optic gyroscope. Opt. Lett., 43, 815-818(2018).

[4] X. S. Yao, H. Xuan, X. Chen, H. Zou, X. Liu, X. Zhao. Polarimetry fiber optic gyroscope. Opt. Express, 27, 19984-19995(2019).

[5] W. Chow, J. Gea-Banacloche, L. Pedrotti, V. Sanders, W. Schleich, M. Scully. The ring laser gyro. Rev. Mod. Phys., 57, 61-104(1985).

[6] Y.-H. Lai, M.-G. Suh, Y.-K. Lu, B. Shen, Q.-F. Yang, H. Wang, J. Li, S. H. Lee, K. Y. Yang, K. Vahala. Earth rotation measured by a chip-scale ring laser gyroscope. Nat. Photonics, 14, 345-349(2020).

[7] M. N. Armenise, C. Ciminelli, F. Dell’Olio, V. M. Passaro. Advances in Gyroscope Technologies(2010).

[8] K. Liu, W. Zhang, W. Chen, K. Li, F. Dai, F. Cui, X. Wu, G. Ma, Q. Xiao. The development of micro-gyroscope technology. J. Micromech. Microeng., 19, 113001(2009).

[9] I. A. Andronova, G. B. Malykin. Physical problems of fiber gyroscopy based on the Sagnac effect. Phys. Usp., 45, 793-817(2002).

[10] C.-Y. Liaw, Y. Zhou, Y.-L. Lam. Characterization of an open-loop interferometric fiber-optic gyroscope with the Sagnac coil closed by an erbium-doped fiber amplifier. J. Lightwave Technol., 16, 2385-2392(1998).

[11] Z. Hu, Y. Zhang, Z. Pan, Q. Tang. Digital closed-loop re-entrant fiber-optic rotation sensor with amplified Sagnac loop. IEEE Photon. Technol. Lett., 12, 1040-1042(2000).

[12] R. Carroll, C. Coccoli, D. Cardarelli, G. Coate. The passive resonator fiber optic gyro and comparison to the interferometer fiber gyro. Proc. SPIE, 719, 169-177(1987).

[13] H. Ma, J. Zhang, L. Wang, Z. Jin. Development and evaluation of optical passive resonant gyroscopes. J. Lightwave Technol., 35, 3546-3554(2016).

[14] D. M. Shupe. Thermally induced nonreciprocity in the fiber-optic interferometer. Appl. Opt., 19, 654-655(1980).

[15] K. Suzuki, K. Takiguchi, K. Hotate. Monolithically integrated resonator microoptic gyro on silica planar lightwave circuit. J. Lightwave Technol., 18, 66-72(2000).

[16] H. Ma, J. Zhang, L. Wang, Y. Lu, D. Ying, Z. Jin. Resonant micro-optic gyro using a short and high-finesse fiber ring resonator. Opt. Lett., 40, 5862-5865(2015).

[17] W. Liang, V. S. Ilchenko, A. A. Savchenkov, E. Dale, D. Eliyahu, A. B. Matsko, L. Maleki. Resonant microphotonic gyroscope. Optica, 4, 114-117(2017).

[18] P. P. Khial, A. D. White, A. Hajimiri. Nanophotonic optical gyroscope with reciprocal sensitivity enhancement. Nat. Photonics, 12, 671-675(2018).

[19] X. Wang, Z. He, K. Hotate. Reduction of polarization-fluctuation induced drift in resonator fiber optic gyro by a resonator with twin 90° polarization-axis rotated splices. Opt. Express, 18, 1677-1683(2010).

[20] H. Li, Y. Lin, L. Liu, H. Ma, Z. Jin. Signal processing improvement of passive resonant fiber optic gyroscope using a reciprocal modulation-demodulation technique. Opt. Express, 28, 18103-18111(2020).

[21] M. Smiciklas, G. Sanders, L. Strandjord, W. Williams, E. Benser, S. Ayotte, F. Costin. Development of a silicon photonics-based light source for compact resonator fiber optic gyroscopes. DGON Inertial Sensors and Systems, 1-12(2019).

[22] G. Sanders, L. Strandjord, J. Wu, W. Williams, M. Smiciklas, M. Salit, C. Narayanan, E. Benser, T. Qiu. Improvements of compact resonator fiber optic gyroscopes. DGON Inertial Sensors and Systems, 1-12(2017).

[23] H. Ma, J. Zhang, L. Wang, Z. Jin. Double closed-loop resonant micro optic gyro using hybrid digital phase modulation. Opt. Express, 23, 15088-15097(2015).

[24] J. E. Heebner, V. Wong, A. Schweinsberg, R. W. Boyd, D. J. Jackson. Optical transmission characteristics of fiber ring resonators. IEEE J. Quantum Electron., 40, 726-730(2004).

[25] G. B. Malykin. Sagnac effect in ring lasers and ring resonators: how does the refractive index of the optical medium influence the sensitivity to rotation?. Phys. Usp., 57, 714-720(2014).

[26] S. Zhao, Q. Liu, Z. He. White-light-driven resonant fiber-optic strain sensor. Opt. Lett., 45, 5217-5220(2020).

[27] Z. Wang, Y. Yang, P. Lu, R. Luo, Y. Li, D. Zhao, C. Peng, Z. Li. Dual-polarization interferometric fiber-optic gyroscope with an ultra-simple configuration. Opt. Lett., 39, 2463-2466(2014).

[28] W. J. Riley. Handbook of Frequency Stability Analysis(2008).

[29] J. Davis, S. Ezekiel. Closed-loop, low-noise fiber-optic rotation sensor. Opt. Lett., 6, 505-507(1981).

[30] R. Meyer, S. Ezekiel, D. W. Stowe, V. Tekippe. Passive fiber-optic ring resonator for rotation sensing. Opt. Lett., 8, 644-646(1983).

[31] W. Burns, R. Moeller, A. Dandridge. Excess noise in fiber gyroscope sources. IEEE Photon. Technol. Lett., 2, 606-608(1990).

[32] Y. Zheng, H. Xu, J. Song, L. Li, C. Zhang. Excess relative-intensity-noise reduction in a fiber optic gyroscope using a Faraday rotator mirror. J. Lightwave Technol., 38, 6939-6947(2020).

[33] J. Honthaas, J.-J. Bonnefois, E. Ducloux, H. Lefèvre. Interferometric filtering of the excess relative intensity noise of the broadband source of a fiber optic gyroscope. Proc. SPIE, 9157, 91572D(2014).

[34] H. Zhang, X. Chen, X. Shu, C. Liu. Fiber optic gyroscope noise reduction with fiber ring resonator. Appl. Opt., 57, 7391-7397(2018).

[35] A. Aleinik, I. Deineka, M. Smolovik, S. Neforosnyi, A. Rupasov. “Compensation of excess RIN in fiber-optic gyro. Gyrosc. Navigation, 7, 214-222(2016).

[36] Z. Wang, Y. Yang, Y. Li, X. Yu, Z. Zhang, Z. Li. Quadrature demodulation with synchronous difference for interferometric fiber-optic gyroscopes. Opt. Express, 20, 25421-25431(2012).

[37] S. X.-Y. Huang, N. Sarma, K. M. Killian, J. E. Goodwin. Optical signal noise reduction for fiber optic gyroscopses. U.S. patent(1999).

[38] W. Burns, R. Moeller. Polarizer requirements for fiber gyroscopes with high-birefringence fiber and broad-band sources. J. Lightwave Technol., 2, 430-435(1984).

[39] F. Mohr. Thermooptically induced bias drift in fiber optical Sagnac interferometers. J. Lightwave Technol., 14, 27-41(1996).

[40] Z. Li, Z. Meng, T. Liu, X. S. Yao. A novel method for determining and improving the quality of a quadrupolar fiber gyro coil under temperature variations. Opt. Express, 21, 2521-2530(2013).