Abstract

We show that white optical intensity noise is in general unevenly split between the signal and quadrature channels of a sinusoidally modulated fiber-optic gyroscope. At certain modulation depths this noise is almost totally relegated to the quadrature channel.

© 1994 Optical Society of America

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