Ti:LiNbO sub 3 components for a fiber gyroscope.

Integrated optics will play a major role in the next generation of fiber gyros since the potential exists for mass producing low-cost gyro front-end circuits. All the necessary components (phase modulators, polarizers, and power splitters) have been demonstrated with Ti:LiNbO sub 3 waveguide technology. An attractive approach of combining the 3dB splitter and polarizer functions in a 3 x 3 directional coupler is presented. This TM is the extended abstract presented at the SPIE Fiber Optic Gyros: Tenth Anniversary Conference.