Compensation of thermal strain induced polarization nonreciprocity in dual-polarization fiber optic gyroscope.

Dual-polarization interferometric fiber optic gyroscope (IFOG) is a novel scheme in which the polarization nonreciprocal (PN) phase error of the two orthogonal polarizations can be optically compensated. In this work, we investigate the effective of PN phase error compensation under varying temperature. It is proved that, the thermally induced strain deforms the fiber, and results in perturbations on the birefringence and polarization cross coupling which degrades the IFOG's stability. A wave propagation model and analytical expressions of PN phase error are derived by using coupled-wave equation and Jones matrix. We theoretically and experimentally verify that, although the single-mode (SM) and polarization-maintaining (PM) fiber coils behave different owing to their intrinsic properties of wave propagation, the thermal strain induced PN phase error can still be compensated under slow and adiabatic temperature variations. This could be a promising feature to overcome the temperature fragility of IFOG.

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