Fibre-optic gyroscope as instrumental challenge for rotational seismology

Rotational Seismology caused highly interest in investigation of rotational movements generated by earthquake, mines and existing in engineering structures. The most oppressive aspect of research in this field is technical requirements for sensors. However, the instruments basing on the Sagnac effect seem to be the most appropriate to investigate rotational effects due to the fact that they are entirely insensitive to translational motion and are able to measure rotation rate in wide frequency and amplitude band. The paper presents a new device FOSREM which, based on FOG, possesses special solutions that makes it perfect, in author knowledge, for any rotation sensing.