Fiber-Optic Gyros - Northrop Grumman Electronic Systems ...

Figure 23. uFORS Product Line (left to right): uFORS-1, uFORS-36m, uFORS-6U, and uFORS-36
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Figure 24. FOG-200 Product Family
From left to right: FOG-200 single axis, self contained rate sensor; two axes, remote sensing rate
package; three axes, remote sensing package.
Figure 25 shows a variant of the FOG-200 that
was developed for a space launch application in which
the fiber-optic gyro had to operate through a 200 g rms
vibration environment.
Figure 25. High Vibration Environment
Version of the FOG-200 Single Axis Rate
Sensor
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SUMMARY
In the last fifteen years, Northrop Grumman
Navigation Systems Division has delivered
approximately 22,000 fiber-optic gyro based inertial
system products and 7,500 individual fiber-optic gyro
rate sensors. This represents nearly 75,000 axes of
fiber-optic gyros. The vision that Vali and Shorthill
gave the world is no longer just a vision. The vision
has been achieved. It is a reality.