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Analysis of Polarization-Fluctuation Induced Bias Error in Resonator Fiber Optic Gyro with Twin 90° Polarization-Axis Rotated Splices

Xijing Wang, Zuyuan He, and Kazuo Hotate

(Received October 22, 2010; accepted April 14, 2011; published online July 20, 2011)

We numerically analyze the polarization-fluctuation induced bias error in a resonator fiber optic gyro (R-FOG) with twin 90° polarization-axis rotated splices in the polarization maintaining fiber (PMF) resonator, especially when polarization dependent loss (PDL) exists inside the resonator. Simulation results indicate that the twin 90° polarization-axis rotated splicing method can effectively suppress the polarization-fluctuation induced bias error in an R-FOG, when the length difference of the fiber segments between the two splicing points is set around a half of the beat-length of the PMF. It is also shown that such an R-FOG is still tolerant to PDL if the polarization crosstalk in the resonator is low, although PDL degrades the performance of the R-FOG.

URL: http://jjap.jsap.jp/link?JJAP/50/072501/
DOI: 10.1143/JJAP.50.072501
PACS: 42.81.Gs, 42.81.Pa

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