Noise effects in high sensitivity fiber optic gyros

Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering

Volumn 2837, Issue , 1996, Pages 381-387

  Burns, W K ^a   Moeller, R P ^a  

^a NAVAL RESEARCH LABORATORY   (United States)

Author keywords

Fiber optic gyroscopes; Noise; Random walk coefficient; Relative intensity noise(RIN)

Indexed keywords

FIBERS; GYROSCOPES; RANDOM PROCESSES;

FIBER OPTIC GYRO; FIBER OPTIC GYROSCOPES; HIGH SENSITIVITY; NOISE; NOISE SPECTRA; NOISE SUBTRACTION; RANDOM WALK COEFFICIENTS; RELATIVE INTENSITY NOISE;

FIBER OPTICS;

EID: 85076816493     PISSN: 0277786X     EISSN: 1996756X     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1117/12.258201     Document Type: Conference Paper

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8. The authors are indebted to Dr. S. X. Huang of Allied Signal for pointing this out.
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