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OPTICS EXPRESS
Volume 19, Issue 5, Pages 4632-4643Publisher
OPTICAL SOC AMER
DOI: 10.1364/OE.19.004632
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- Doctoral Program of High Education, PR China [20060335064]
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Resonator micro optic gyro (RMOG) is a promising candidate for applications requiring small, light and robust gyros. In optical passive ring resonator gyros, clockwise and counter clockwise lightwaves are modulated at different frequencies to reduce the backscattering induced noise. The effectiveness of this technique, however, is determined by the carrier suppression level. Accurate modulation index and high environmental temperature stability is required for achieving high total carrier suppression for the traditional single phase modulation technique (SPMT). In this paper, we propose an RMOG based on the double phase modulation technique (DPMT). Compared with the traditional SPMT, two additional phase modulations are added to provide additional carrier suppression. It is found that the control accuracy of the modulation index and temperature stability is relaxed more than 30 times. It is easily performed for reducing the backscattering error below the shot noise limited sensitivity. The modulation parameters in the DPMT are analyzed and optimized. Based on the optimum parameters of the DPMT, a bias stability of 1.85 x 10(-4) rad/s is successfully demonstrated in the polarization maintaining silica waveguide resonator with the length of 7.9 cm. This is the best result reported to date, to the best of our knowledge, for a waveguide type passive ring resonator gyro. (C) 2011 Optical Society of America
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