• Photonics Research
  • Vol. 10, Issue 7, 1661 (2022)
Changkun Feng1, Yonggui Zhang1, Honghao Ma1, Hui Li1、2、*, and Lishuang Feng1、3、*
Author Affiliations
  • 1School of Instrumentation and Optoelectronics Engineering, Beihang University, Beijing 100191, China
  • 2e-mail: lihui@buaa.edu.cn
  • 3e-mail: fenglishuang_cn@hotmail.com
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    DOI: 10.1364/PRJ.456321 Cite this Article Set citation alerts
    Changkun Feng, Yonggui Zhang, Honghao Ma, Hui Li, Lishuang Feng. Improving long-term temperature bias stability of an integrated optical gyroscope employing a Si3N4 resonator[J]. Photonics Research, 2022, 10(7): 1661 Copy Citation Text show less

    Abstract

    The presence of polarization noise generated by the waveguide resonator limits the performance of a resonant integrated optical gyroscope (RIOG). Using silicon nitride (Si3N4) to fabricate a waveguide with an ultralow-aspect-ratio can result in a resonator that only supports light transmission in a single-polarization state, suppressing polarization noise. We successfully fabricated a Si3N4 resonator with a bending radius of 17.5 mm, a finesse (F) of 150, a quality factor (Q) of 1.54×107, and a propagation loss of 1.2 dB/m. The Si3N4 resonator was used to construct a double closed-loop RIOG that showed long-term bias stability (3600 s) of 13.2°/h at room temperature, 14.8°/h at 40°C, 21.2°/h at 50°C, and 23.6°/h at 60°C. We believe this to be the best performance reported to date for a Si3N4 resonator-based RIOG. This advancement paves the way for the wider application of RIOGs.
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    F=πarccos[2q/(1+q2)],

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    B=exp(jβL)[1αxL001αyL][exp(jΔβ2L)00exp(jΔβ2L)],

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    αloss=αcore+αtop+αbottom+αsidewalls+αcladding.

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    Changkun Feng, Yonggui Zhang, Honghao Ma, Hui Li, Lishuang Feng. Improving long-term temperature bias stability of an integrated optical gyroscope employing a Si3N4 resonator[J]. Photonics Research, 2022, 10(7): 1661
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