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I thought I was a lock this month.
A related device is the fibre optic gyroscope which also operates on the basis of the Sagnac effect, but in which the ring is not a part of the laser. Rather, an external laser injects counter-propagating beams into an optical fiber ring, and rotation of the system then causes a relative phase shift between those beams when interfered after their pass through the fiber ring proportional to the rate of rotation. This is therefore less sensitive than the RLG in which the externally observed phase shift is proportional to the accumulated rotation itself, not its derivative. However the sensitivity of the fiber gyro is enhanced by having a long optical fiber coiled for compactness, but in which the Sagnac effect is multiplied according to the number of turns.
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@Hyperion .. for longer than 10 min you need
Mate, if I remember correctly you are an EE engineer..... yara, have you seen them "penny" sized full guidance units..... what sort of inertial guidance element do they use.... super miniaturized LRG's?
So what would a PGM or a stand-off missile use, the FOG system or a LSG system- specially when a nation has developed both. Would economic considerations lead to the employment of the FOG for PGMs and Taurus KEPD like munitions? Would that be an acceptable trade-off?