Abstract

The noise sources in the optical fiber gyroscope[1] must be completely estimated and eliminated for practical applications. An optical fiber gyroscope with ordinary single mode fiber used under the earth’s magnetic field shows a drift nearly equal to the earth's rotation rate through the Faraday effect[2]. It was pointed out qualitatively in the experiment that the drift can be suppressed by using a polarization maintaining fiber[3].

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