WO1998003895A1 - Elektrooptischer phasenmodulator mit richtungsunabhängiger impulsantwort - Google Patents
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- G02F—OPTICAL DEVICES OR ARRANGEMENTS FOR THE CONTROL OF LIGHT BY MODIFICATION OF THE OPTICAL PROPERTIES OF THE MEDIA OF THE ELEMENTS INVOLVED THEREIN; NON-LINEAR OPTICS; FREQUENCY-CHANGING OF LIGHT; OPTICAL LOGIC ELEMENTS; OPTICAL ANALOGUE/DIGITAL CONVERTERS
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- G02F1/035—Devices or arrangements for the control of the intensity, colour, phase, polarisation or direction of light arriving from an independent light source, e.g. switching, gating or modulating; Non-linear optics for the control of the intensity, phase, polarisation or colour based on ceramics or electro-optical crystals, e.g. exhibiting Pockels effect or Kerr effect in an optical waveguide structure
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- G01C—MEASURING DISTANCES, LEVELS OR BEARINGS; SURVEYING; NAVIGATION; GYROSCOPIC INSTRUMENTS; PHOTOGRAMMETRY OR VIDEOGRAMMETRY
- G01C19/00—Gyroscopes; Turn-sensitive devices using vibrating masses; Turn-sensitive devices without moving masses; Measuring angular rate using gyroscopic effects
- G01C19/58—Turn-sensitive devices without moving masses
- G01C19/64—Gyrometers using the Sagnac effect, i.e. rotation-induced shifts between counter-rotating electromagnetic beams
- G01C19/72—Gyrometers using the Sagnac effect, i.e. rotation-induced shifts between counter-rotating electromagnetic beams with counter-rotating light beams in a passive ring, e.g. fibre laser gyrometers
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- G02F—OPTICAL DEVICES OR ARRANGEMENTS FOR THE CONTROL OF LIGHT BY MODIFICATION OF THE OPTICAL PROPERTIES OF THE MEDIA OF THE ELEMENTS INVOLVED THEREIN; NON-LINEAR OPTICS; FREQUENCY-CHANGING OF LIGHT; OPTICAL LOGIC ELEMENTS; OPTICAL ANALOGUE/DIGITAL CONVERTERS
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- the invention relates to an electro-optical phase modulator with an integrated optical waveguide and at the field side at a constant mutual distance from the optical axis along the waveguide arranged modulation electrodes.
- an integrated optical chip (IO chip) is often used, which usually has an integrated polarizer on the input side, then a Y-branch and two equally spaced along the optical axes after the Y-branching arranged electrodes of two phase modulators in a certain configuration, which modulate the two light beams radiated into the ends of a fiber coil in the opposite direction in a certain manner, which will be explained in more detail below.
- phase modulators or digital phase shifters are described in US 5 137 359, US 5 237 629 and US 5 400 142.
- An FOG with this type of phase modulator is sensitive to interference signals interspersed in the phase modulator.
- MIOC modulating IO chip
- Interference signals that couple into the MIOC path can cause bias errors under certain circumstances.
- periodic interference signals have an effect if the gyro sampling clock is mis-matched with the transit time of the light through the fiber.
- a misalignment also leads to further interference effects, such as, for example, an increased random mandrel walk.
- these effects should not be examined here.
- T the sampling clock of the system and at the same time the period of a coupling interference voltage
- T 0 the deviating transit tent of light
- ⁇ (t) the phase modulation produced by the modulator
- ⁇ s (t) the Sagnac phase.
- This signal is filtered by a filter arranged in the data path and then sampled, the nth sample value y n being calculated by a weighted averaging in the interval ((n-1) T, nT].
- Weighting function is the impulse response h reflected on the time axis (t) of the filter.No contributions occur outside the interval, even if the impulse response does not disappear there, because due to the statistical modulation, demodulated signal components outside the interval mentioned are uncorrelated
- ⁇ (t) is periodically continued according to ⁇ (t) ⁇ (t + nT).
- the invention is based on the object of an electro-optical phase modulator for fiber-optic interferometers. to create in particular for fiber optic gyroscopes in which the sensitivity to interfering interference signals observed so far has been completely or at least largely eliminated.
- the starting point for the invention is the knowledge that the sensitivity of electro-optical phase modulators of the type mentioned can theoretically be reduced to zero if the time of the working cycle of the interferometer or gyro with the orbital period of the light from the first phase modulator via the fiber spool to the opposite one Phase modulator is brought into line. It has been recognized that this is necessary. To take measures to ensure that the phase modulator has the same impulse response in both directions of light travel.
- the technical teaching of the invention can thus be characterized for an electro-optical phase modulator with an integrated optical waveguide and on both sides at a constant mutual distance from the optical axis along the waveguide arranged modulation electrodes in that the electrodes are arranged so that the spatiotemporal spread of the potentials on the electrodes and the electric field between the electrodes produce a symmetrically distributed impulse response.
- This basic idea of the invention is suitable for both analog and digital phase modulators when used in FOGs.
- a digital phase modulator is then that a plurality of pairs of electrodes which can be driven in parallel and which are linearly graduated in terms of their longitudinal extent are provided with a counterelectrode arranged between these binary-graduated electrodes, each binary stage consisting of two sub-electrodes and the points of symmetry of all binary stages matching, such that that the complete electrode arrangement generates a symmetrically distributed impulse response.
- phase modulators are explained which, according to the invention, provide the same impulse response in both directions of passage of the light.
- u (t) is the reset voltage (or interference voltage) acting on the phase modulator
- ⁇ the electro-optical transmission factor
- ⁇ s (t) the Sagnac phase
- T the light transit time from the center to the center of the phase modulators through the coil of the FOG.
- the light coming from a light source D is split at a Y branch Y into two parts, which then pass through the modulators m j and m2, then through the coil S and then again through the two modulators m j , m 2 .
- the light rays are under a mutual phase shift
- ⁇ m is the phase generated by the modulators and ⁇ s is the Sagnac phase. Both modulators are driven by the same voltage u (t). Let the transit time of the light from the center of the modulator m j to the center of the modulator m 2 be T Q. Then for the phase ⁇ m with opposite polarity of the two modulators:
- ⁇ m ⁇ f (/) * w (+ ou (/) * «(/) - ⁇ f (* u (t - T 0 ) - ⁇ 2 " (* u (- T Q ) (18)
- ⁇ n ⁇ (t) is the electro-optic impulse response of the modulators for the direction of passage from left to on the right side there is.
- the asterisk * indicates the folding:
- FIG. 2 shows an electro-optical phase modulator, according to the invention as a system with a distributed impulse response
- FIG. 3 shows a schematic representation of the electrode arrangement for a basic solution variant of an electro-optical digital phase modulator with an optimally distributed impulse response according to the invention
- FIG. 4 shows another basic embodiment of an electrode arrangement for a digital phase modulator, which corresponds to the symmetry requirements according to the invention with regard to the spatiotemporal spread of applied potentials;
- FIG. 5A shows a schematic representation of the electrode arrangement of analog phase modulators according to the invention, FIG. 5A illustrating a mirror-symmetrical and FIG. 5B a point-symmetrical electrode arrangement.
- Phase modulators which correspond to the invention are in principle constructed as shown in FIG. 2.
- the optically active area characterized by the illustrated rectangle R., runs along the x-axis extending from right to left. its extent being limited by the interval [- o- * Q ].
- the control voltage u (t) now couples with an impulse response h (x, t) that is dependent on x into each point of the active region and generates an incremental phase shift there.
- v is the speed of light propagation in the active area.
- the second option leads to
- the phase modulator of the type according to the invention in particular for a fiber-optic gyroscope, can be produced as an integrated optical component (chip), an optical waveguide being diffused into a suitable material, in particular Ll b ⁇ 3 or LiTa ⁇ 3.
- This waveguide has an optical refractive index that is dependent on an applied electric field. The necessary electrical field is generated by the electrodes arranged on the surface of the module parallel to the waveguide.
- FIG. 3 shows an electrode arrangement corresponding to the first case explained above (equation (23)) for an active channel 1 of the symmetrically constructed pair of phase modulators m ⁇ or m 2 .
- 2 denotes electrode connections for the binary-controllable electrodes of the digital modulator.
- Reference note 4 identifies a counter electrode which is assigned to both modulators m j , ⁇ i2.
- the distributed impulse response word h (x. T) is therefore dependent on the spatiotemporal distribution of the generated electric field.
- the symmetry requirements for the distributed impulse responses h n (x. T) derived in the previous section can be met by symmetrical electrode arrangements on the phase modulator, whereby the spatiotemporal spread of the potentials on the electrodes must also satisfy the symmetry requirements. This applies both to digital (FIGS. 3 and 4) and to analog modulators (FIG. 5A. B).
- the optical waveguide is represented by the arrow running in the middle between the electrodes (active channel 1). Only one of the two modulators is shown, the other must be designed accordingly.
- the second case leads to an electrode layout in which the electrode geometries of the two modulators are separated by rotating them by 180 °.
- Flg. 4 shows the basic illustration of such an electrode layout.
- the active channel of the modulator is m ⁇ with 10
- the active channel of the modulator is m 2 with 1 1.
- 12 the common counterelectrode with 13 the binary electrode array of the modulator m j and with 14 the binary electrode array of the modulator m 2 rotated in its arrangement.
- the invention allows at least two types of electrode layouts for Sagnac interferometers. both from analog and from digital phase modulators, so that the influence of periodic interference signals is reliably suppressed with ideal work cycle tuning.
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JP10506558A JP2000515260A (ja) | 1996-07-19 | 1997-07-18 | 方向に左右されないパルス応答を持った電気光学位相変調器 |
EP97938830A EP0912912A1 (de) | 1996-07-19 | 1997-07-18 | Elektrooptischer phasenmodulator mit richtungsunabhängiger impulsantwort |
EA199900133A EA199900133A1 (ru) | 1996-07-19 | 1997-07-18 | Электрооптический фазовый модулятор с не зависящей от направления реакцией на импульсное воздействие |
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