This thesis demonstrates and investigates novel dual-polarization interferometric fiber-optic gyroscope (IFOG) configurations, which utilize optical compensation between two orthogonal polarizations to suppress errors caused by polarization nonreciprocity. Further, it provides a scheme for dual-polarization two-port IFOGs and details their unique benefits. Dual-polarization IFOGs break through the restriction of the "minimal scheme," which conventional IFOGs are based on. These innovative new IFOGs have unique properties: They require no polarizer and have two ports available for signal detection. As such, they open new avenues for IFOGs to achieve lower costs and higher sensitivity.

This landmark work – considered by many in the field to be THE reference on fiber-optic gyroscopes (FOGs) – provides you with a complete and thorough system analysis of the FOG and remains unmatched by any other single source. Now in its third edition, this fully updated and authoritative book: Gives you access to all the details you need to know about optics, single-mode fiber optics, and integrated optics to fully grasp the design rules of the fiber-optic gyroscope Helps you understand the concepts that have emerged as the preferred solutions to obtain a practical device Guides you through the advances that have occurred in the last seven years since the previous edition was published and how they are implemented in the current FOGs Drawing on 45 years of research and development, The Fiber-Optic Gyroscope, Third Edition, features new content on the relationship between white-noise power spectral density and random walk; Allan variance; testing with optical coherence domain polarimetry; a new simple mechanical model of the thermally induced stresses and related strains in the sensing coil; simple viewing of the reduction of the Shupe effect with symmetrical windings; and comments about dispersion and birefringence dispersion. The book contains over 350 illustrations (including 70 new figures) and many helpful appendixes, and gives you everything you need to understand the fiber gyro. The author is a leading expert in this field and is one of the early pioneers of the practical optical architecture and signal processing technique that is universally used in today’s FOGs. This is a must-have reference for anyone working with FOGs, from students and academics learning about the device, to optoelectronics engineers and professionals needing to stay abreast of the current concepts and recent advances.

Written by one of the field’s leading experts, this landmark reference presents a thorough system analysis of the fiber-optic gyroscope (FOG), describing the concepts that have emerged as the preferred solutions for obtaining a practical device. This book’s first edition was published in the early 1990’s. If the basic design rules of the FOG have remained unchanged, the technology has certainly matured, and the expectations presented in the first edition have been largely exceeded. This second edition is updated throughout, featuring new content on Allan variance; testing with optical coherence domain polarimetry; the Shupe effect; and rare-Earth doped fiber ASE sources. In addition, brand new comprehensive appendixes cover the optics, single-mode fiber optics, and integrated optics necessary to understand the fiber gyro and provide an appropriate vocabulary for communicating with electronic component designers.

Contents:Laser Site Spectroscopy of Transition Metal Ions in Glass (Gan Fuxi & Liu Huimin)Pair-Pumped Upconversion Solid State Lasers (Stephen C Rand)CW Upconversion Laser Action in Neodymium and Erbium Doped Solids (R M Macfarlane et al)A Critical Review of High-Efficiency Crystals for Tunable Lasers (J T Lin)The Growth and Properties of BaTiO3 Crystals (Wu Xing et al)Potassium Titanyl Phosphate (KTP): Properties and New Applications (J D Bierlein)Growth, Spectroscopic Properties and Applications of Doped LiNbO3 Crystals (Liu Jiancheng)Recent Advances in Photorefractive Nonlinear Optics (Pochi Yeh)Nonclassical Radiation From Single-Atom Oscillators (Herbert Walther)Laser Spectroscopic Studies of Molecules in Highly Excited Vibrational State (Tadao Shimizu et al)Kinetic Processes in the Electron-Beam Pumped KrF Laser (H Takuma et al)Sum-Frequency Generation For Surface Vibrational Spectroscopy (P Guyot-Sionnest et al)Optical Studies of Molecule/Surface Interactions (M M T Loy et al)Femtosecond Photon Echoes (C V Shank et al)Laser Cooling and Trapping of Atoms (Steven Chu et al)Observation of the Motion of Slow Atoms in a Standing Wave Field (Wang Yuzhu et al)and others Readership: Applied physicists.