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The Challenges and Opportunities for Performance Enhancement in Resonant Fiber Optic Gyroscopes.

Sumathi Mahudapathi, Sumukh Nandan R, Gowrishankar R, Balaji Srinivasan

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Sumathi MahudapathiAvionics Division, Department of AFCS, Hindustan Aeronautics Ltd., Hyderabad 500042, India.ORCID 0009-0007-7631-9455
Sumukh Nandan RDepartment of Physics, Sri Sathya Sai Institute of Higher Learning, Sri Sathya Sai District 515134, India.ORCID 0000-0002-1727-9752
Gowrishankar RDepartment of Physics, Sri Sathya Sai Institute of Higher Learning, Sri Sathya Sai District 515134, India.ORCID 0000-0002-1845-4188
Balaji SrinivasanDepartment of Electrical Engineering, Indian Institute of Technology Madras, Chennai 600036, India.ORCID 0000-0001-9996-0535

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Abstract

In the last decade, substantial progress has been made to improve the performance of optical gyroscopes for inertial navigation applications in terms of critical parameters such as bias stability, scale factor stability, and angular random walk (ARW). Specifically, resonant fiber optic gyroscopes (RFOGs) have emerged as a viable alternative to widely popular interferometric fiber optic gyroscopes (IFOGs). In a conventional RFOG, a single-wavelength laser source is used to generate counter-propagating waves in a ring resonator, for which the phase difference is measured in terms of the resonant frequency shift to obtain the rotation rate. However, the primary limitation of RFOG performance is the bias drift, which can be attributed to nonreciprocal effects such as Rayleigh backscattering, back-reflections, polarization instabilities, Kerr nonlinearity, and environmental fluctuations. In this paper, we review the challenges and opportunities of achieving performance enhancement in RFOGs.

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bias stabilityfrequency comb sourcehollow core anti-resonant fiberinertial navigationresonant fiber optic gyroscopesingle coupler resonator with reflector

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PMID39797014
PMCPMC11723146

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