Air-core photonic bandgap fiber(PBF)is the perfect choice of the next-generation fiber optical gyroscope(FOG),with excellent temperature,electromagnetism and radiation adaptability.Numerical aperture is an important optical parameter of PBF for application in FOG.The PBF’s maximum theoretical numerical aperture(NAmax)is calculated and compared with the far-field numerical aperture(NAeff)through experiments.The result indicates that the relationship between NAmax and NAeff has much stronger dependence on wavelength than that of the conventional fiber,and they get close at wavelengths near the middle of the photonic bandgap with the error less than 5%.Furthermore,photonic bandgap fiber optical gyroscope(PBFOG)with no fusion splicing points is proposed,and the optimization method and results of the PBF’s structure parameters for application in PBFOG are given from the aspect of numerical aperture.
XU Xiao BinGAO Fu YuZHANG Zhi HaoJIN JingSONG Ning Fang
The bias stability of differential interferometric fiber optical gyroscope is analyzed.Thermal error causing long-term bias drift are reduced by putting the 90°splice in the middle of the fiber coil and applying a wide spectrum light source.Also,a kind of novel optical differential processing,which is much more precise than the electronic differential processing,is proposed for reducing the residual nonreciprocal error in the final differential output.An experimental setup based on optical differential processing was built.An^100 fold reduction in the long-term bias drift is demonstrated experimentally compared with the primary differential interferometric fiber optical gyroscope.
