Fiber-optic coil and method of manufacturing same

Details Fiber-optic coil and method of manufacturing same Fiber-optic coil and method of manufacturing same

1991-11-29

1992-12-01

Lee, John D.

Optical waveguides

Optical fiber waveguide with cladding

356350, 242 18A, 385147, G02B 616

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051685396

ABSTRACT:
A fiber-optic coil for use as the sensor loop of a fiber-optic gyroscope includes a first optical fiber segment wound as radially successive coiled layers around a coil bobbin in a first region thereof, and a second optical fiber segment wound as radially successive coiled layers around the coil bobbin in an axially adjacent second region thereof. The first and second optical fiber segments are joined to each other through a longitudinal middle portion, which is positioned in the radially innermost coiled layers of the first and second optical fiber segments adjacent to a longitudinal center of said coil bobbin. Each of the first and second optical fiber segments is wound in alternate axial directions in the radially successive coiled layers. The first and second optical fiber segments may be integrally joined to each other by the longitudinal middle portion, or may be separate from, but joined to, each other by a depolarizer across the longitudinal middle portion.

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patent: 5074665 (1991-12-01), Huang et al.
"Thermally Induced Nonreciprocity in the Fiber-Optic Interferometer" by D. M. Shupe; Applied Optics, vol. 19, No. 5, Mar. 1, 1980.

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