DocumentCode
846492
Title
Optical fibre Brillouin ring laser gyroscope
Author
Kadiwar, R.K. ; Giles, Ian P.
Author_Institution
Dept. of Electron. & Electr. Eng., Univ. Coll., London, UK
Volume
25
Issue
25
fYear
1989
Firstpage
1729
Lastpage
1731
Abstract
An active all-fibre ring resonator gyroscope based on stimulated Brillouin scattering is demonstrated. The occurrence of guided acoustic modes in certain optical fibres is found to increase the lock-in range, and a novel method to reduce lock-in for this type of gyroscope is investigated.
Keywords
fibre optic sensors; gyroscopes; ring lasers; stimulated Brillouin scattering; active all-fibre ring resonator gyroscope; guided acoustic modes; lock-in range; stimulated Brillouin scattering;
fLanguage
English
Journal_Title
Electronics Letters
Publisher
iet
ISSN
0013-5194
Type
jour
DOI
10.1049/el:19891157
Filename
41996
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