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The Generation of Higher-order Laguerre-Gauss Optical Beams for High-precision Interferometry
Published on: August 12, 2013
Implementation of Hemispherical Resonator Gyroscope with 3 × 3 Optical Interferometers for Analysis of Resonator
Myeongseop Kim1, Bobae Cho1, Hansol Lee1
1School of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, Gwangju Institute of Science and Technology, 123 Cheomdangwagi-ro, Buk-gu, Gwangju 61005, Korea.
Abstract:
A hemispherical resonator gyroscope (HRG) has been implemented by using a consumer wineglass as the resonator and 3 × 3 optical interferometers as the detectors. The poorness of the off-the-shelf wineglass as the resonator can be overcome by the high performance of the optical interferometer. The effects of asymmetries in stiffness and absorption of the resonator are analyzed theoretically and confirmed experimentally. We prove that the trace of the amplitude ratio of two n = 2 fundamental resonant modes of the resonator follows a straight line in a complex plane. By utilizing the straightness of the ratio and the high performance of the optical interferometer, we extract four real constant parameters characterizing the HRG system. Experimentally, by using a resonator having an average resonance frequency of 444 Hz and Q value of 1477.2, it was possible to measure the Coriolis force at the level of industrial grade. The bias stability was measured as small as 2.093°/h.
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