Ring laser gyroscope

About: Ring laser gyroscope is a research topic. Over the lifetime, 2070 publications have been published within this topic receiving 18609 citations. The topic is also known as: Sagnac interferometer.

Posture Demodulation Study on Carriers Measured by a Novel MEMS Gyroscope

Abstract: Non-driven structure silicon micromechanical gyroscope can sense rolling, pitching and yaw angular rate of the rotating body at the same time, which is suitable for rotating body gesture detection. But this characteristic is not suitable for non-rotating flight carrier. So this study uses micro motor to provide spin angular velocity for non-driven silicon micromechanical gyroscope, and to further generate gyroscopic effect which is sensitive to the attitude information, including rolling rate, yaw angular rate and pitch angular rate of low-speed rotating or non-rotating object. The study analyses the output signals based on simulation rotating object experiments of three-axis moving of silicon micromechanical gyroscope, the study uses phase based method to determine deflection polarity, and uses double accelerometer multiplication algorithm to demodulate the output signals of gyro. All above results provide a basis research results for further realize the goal of real-time demodulation of gyro signals when silicon micromechanical gyroscope is applied to the non-rotating and rotating flight carrier.

Generalized model for beam-path variation induced by spherical mirrors' radial displacements in square ring resonator and its applications in backscattering coupling effect

Abstract: Based on augmented ray matrix approach, a generalized model for beam-path variation induced by spherical mirrors' radial displacements has been established. The model can be applied to analyze beam-path variation induced by all the possible perturbation sources in various ring resonators. Backscattering coupling coefficient r is obtained as a function of mirrors' radial displacements. Some novel results of backscattering coupling effect have been obtained. The results indicate that radial displacements cause bigger beam-path variation than the same value of axial displacements. r can not be reduced to zero because of the initial machining errors of terminal surfaces of plane mirrors. However, r can be reduced to almost zero when stabilizing frequency of laser gyro by adjusting the radial displacements of spherical mirrors. This generalized model is useful for the cavity design, cavity improvement, and alignment of planar ring resonators. The model is also useful for controlling the shape of laser beams and researching backscattering coupling effect in high precision laser gyroscopes.