Invention Application
- Patent Title: FIBER-OPTIC MEASUREMENT DEVICE, GYROMETER, AND NAVIGATION AND INERTIAL-STABILIZATION SYSTEM
- Patent Title (中): 光纤测量装置,陀螺仪,导航和惯性稳定系统
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Application No.: US14379665Application Date: 2013-02-20
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Publication No.: US20150009505A1Publication Date: 2015-01-08
- Inventor: Hervé Lefevre , Van-Dong Pham , Joachim Honthaas
- Applicant: IXBLUE
- Priority: FR1251541 20120221
- International Application: PCT/FR2013/050351 WO 20130220
- Main IPC: G01C19/66
- IPC: G01C19/66

Abstract:
A fiber-optic measurement device (10) includes a SAGNAC ring interferometer (20) having a proper frequency fp. The aim is to improve response time while maintaining high precision across the measurement range. Biasing elements (130) are used to produce: a first biasing phase-differential modulation component Δφb1(t) (34) which is periodic in time-slots, having levels +π and −π, at a first biasing modulation frequency fb1 such that fb1=(2k1+1) fp, k1 being a natural number; and a second periodic biasing phase-differential modulation component Δφb2(t) (35), having extreme amplitudes +π/a and −π/a, a being a non-zero real number such that |a|>1, at a second biasing modulation frequency fb2 such that fb2=(2k2+1) fp, k2 being a non-zero natural number such that k2>k1. A gyrometer including such a measurement device and a navigation or inertial-stabilization system including at least one such gyrometer are also described.
Public/Granted literature
- US09291458B2 Fiber-optic measurement device, gyrometer, and navigation and inertial-stabilization system Public/Granted day:2016-03-22
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