Sensitivity and stability of an air-core fibre-optic gyroscope

Measurement Science and Technology

Volumn 18, Issue 10, 2007, Pages 3089-3097

  Digonnet, Michel ^a   Blin, Stéphane ^a   Kim, Hyang Kyun ^a   Dangui, Vinayak ^a   Kino, Gordon ^a  

^a STANFORD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Air core fibre; Backscattering; Faraday effect; Fibre sensor; Fibre optic gyroscope; Kerr effect; Photonic bandgap fibre; Shupe effect

Indexed keywords

BACKSCATTERING; FARADAY EFFECT; GYROSCOPES; OPTICAL KERR EFFECT;

AIR-CORE FIBER; PHOTONIC-BANDGAP FIBER; SHUPE EFFECT;

FIBER OPTIC SENSORS;

BACKSCATTERING; FARADAY EFFECT; FIBER OPTIC SENSORS; GYROSCOPES; OPTICAL KERR EFFECT;

EID: 36749099051     PISSN: 09570233     EISSN: 13616501     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/0957-0233/18/10/S07     Document Type: Article

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