Zhejiang University

Jinlong Yu

Kaichen Song

Lingyun Ye

Ju Wang

A bidirectional optical-carrying microwave resonance system based on a circulator structure and a method for detecting angular velocity by said system. A high-stability optical-carrying microwave of which polarization states in forward and reverse directions are perpendicular is generated in an optical fiber ring by utilizing a regenerative mold locking technology, a cavity length control technology, and a polarization state separation technology, and the optical-carrying microwave is used for measuring a rotational angular velocity. The circulator structure is adopted and the bidirectional optical-carrying microwave resonance is achieved by means of a bidirectional regenerative mode locking technology. A reciprocal bidirectional optical-carrying microwave resonance system is achieved on the basis of a non-reciprocal error elimination technology of a wide-spectrum optical interferometer. The polarization state separation technology is adopted to achieve dual-wavelength separation of optical signals and the perpendicular polarization state is adopted for opposite transmission in a sensitive ring, so that the detection capability of the sensitive ring is improved. The cavity length control technology is adopted to lock a microwave oscillation frequency in one direction to a high-stability standard-time reference source, so that a relative cavity length of an optical resonant cavity is stabilized. The system has the characteristics of high practicability, high measurement precision and the like.

Bidirectional optical-carrying microwave resonance system based on circulator structure and method for detecting angular velocity by said system

A polarization-maintaining fully-reciprocal bi-directional optical carrier microwave resonance system and an angular velocity measurement method thereof. In the system, highly stable optical carrier microwaves are generated in a clockwise direction and a counterclockwise direction in the same resonant cavity, and are used to measure the angular velocity of rotation of a carrier apparatus. A fully reciprocal ring-shaped resonant cavity structure is used to achieve a fully reciprocal bi-directional optical resonance system. A polarization state separation technique is used to separate an optical signal into two wavelengths, and optical signals with perpendicular polarization states are transmitted in opposite directions in a sensing ring, thereby improving the measurement capability of the sensing ring. Bi-directional optical carrier microwave resonance is achieved by using a phase tracking structure and a regenerative mode locking technique. A cavity length control technique is used to lock the oscillation frequency of microwaves in one of the directions to a highly stable standard time reference source, thereby achieving a stable relative cavity length of an optical resonant cavity. The described key techniques greatly improve the signal-to-noise ratio of bi-directional oscillation difference frequency signals caused by the Sagnac effect. The system and the method are practical and have high measurement precision.

Polarization-maintaining fully-reciprocal bi-directional optical carrier microwave resonance system and angular velocity measurement method thereof

The present invention provides an angular velocity detection method adopting a bi-directional full reciprocal coupling optoelectronic oscillator, which is implemented on an optical carrier microwave gyroscope. The optical carrier microwave gyroscope is a bi-directional resonant optical carrier microwave angular velocity measurement device sharing one optical fiber loop. The core of the method lies in that the Sagnac effect is sensed using a bi-directional optical carrier microwave resonant cavity, where the optical carrier microwave resonant cavity employs a coupling optoelectronic oscillator to achieve a bi-directional full reciprocal optical fiber path, and non-reciprocity error of the resonant cavity is eliminated effectively. The angular velocity detection method has features of high-precision, easy implementation and low costs.

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Hangzhou, China

Jinlong Yu