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Prerana Dabral Pinnoji1, Jagannath Nayak
1Electro-Optical Instruments Research Academy, Hyderabad, India. preranadabral@gmail.com
Applied Optics
|August 6, 2013
Abstract:
In this paper, design of a resonator fiber-optic gyroscope comprised of a single laser source and two optical fiber resonator rings is presented. A typical gyroscope measures angular rotation around a fixed axis, whereas the proposed design can sense simultaneous rotation about two orthogonal axes. Two variants of the design are proposed and analyzed using a mathematical model based on Jones matrix methodology.
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