Lefevre H.C. The Fiber Optic Gyroscope

Artech House, 2014. — 407 p.
Second Edition
decades after the first edition of this book in the early 1990s, it seemed timely to prepare a revised version. If the basic design rules of the fiber-optic gyroscope (often abbreviated FOG) have remained unchanged, the technology has matured, and the expectations presented in the first edition have been largely exceeded. Navigation-grade bias stability (0.01°/hour) was seen as the goal, when today strategic grade looks accessible with a bias better than 0.0001°/hour. The technical serendipity of the fibergyro, which was outlined early on, is clearly confirmed. This revised edition is enlarged by 50%, and about 300 figures ease the understanding of this multidisciplinary system.
I would like to recall the very special tribute I owe to Hervé J. Arditty, the president of iXCore (the parent company of iXBlue), for our continuous fruitful collaboration and the profound influence of the late Professor H. John Shaw during my postdoctoral scholarship at Stanford University in the early 1980s.