An investigation of secondary wave-induced intensity modulation in fibre optic gyroscope

作者:Xu, Xiaobin*; Zhang, Zhihao; Pan, Xiong; Song, Ningfang; Zhang, Chunxi
来源:Journal of Modern Optics, 2017, 64(5): 451-456.
DOI:10.1080/09500340.2016.1242788

摘要

We propose a double-eigenfrequency-based method to determine the magnitude of the mode-mismatch-induced secondary waves in integrated optic chip in a fibre optic gyroscope (FOG). The experimental results show that the mode-mismatch-induced secondary waves have a magnitude corresponding to power coupling of -91.5dB in the IOC. Based on the obtained secondary waves' magnitude, the effect of secondary wave-induced intensity modulation on the FOG performance is investigated, and the simulation results show that it causes a scale factor error of -0.01ppm for a high-precision FOG (bias stability -0.001 degrees/h).