Investigation of the effects of temporal thermal gradients in fiber optic gyroscope sensing coils, part 2

Optical Engineering

Volumn 36, Issue 1, 1997, Pages 29-34

  Sawyer, Janet ^b,c,d,e   Ruffin, Paul B ^a,b,c,d,f,g   Sung, C C ^c,h,i,j  

^a SPIE ^*

^b AMSMI RD MG NC   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF ALABAMA IN HUNTSVILLE   (United States)

^d U S ARMY SPACE AND MISSILE DEFENSE COMMAND   (United States)

^e Missile Command's Fiber Optic G   (United States)

^f ALABAMA A AND M UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^g DYNETICS INC   (United States)

^h NATIONAL TAIWAN UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

ⁱ UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^j OHIO STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

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Author keywords

Axial thermal gradient; Fiber optic gyroscope sensing coils; Radial thermal gradients

Indexed keywords

EID: 0010613920     PISSN: 00913286     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1117/1.601188     Document Type: Article

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4. C. M. Lofts, P. B. Ruffin, M. Parker, and C. C. Sung, "Investigation of the effects of temporal thermal gradients in fiber optic gyroscope sensing coils," Opt. Eng. 34(10), 2856-2863 (1995).