While the development of the optic interferometric sensors achieves great progress, one fact that
restricts this development is the demodulation technique. An applicable demodulation method for
interferometric sensors is called "The Phase Generated Carrier (PGC) demodulation". Yet this
demodulation fails to content the large-scale sensors application for the limitations of the electronic
devices. Another arctangent approach based on digital demodulator proves more advantages than the
traditional Differentiate and Cross Multiply (DCM) approach which is used in PGC demodulation.
In this paper, the arctangent approach based on PGC demodulation is discussed and simulated. Lookup
table is used in the arctangent approach. Values equal to the existent data in the lookup table are chosen
from the table, and values between two different data in the table are modulated to the linear
approximate values. Two primary objects are aimed to demonstrate the advantages of the arctangent
approach: (1). the noise analysis of this demodulation, considered two aspects: a. the relativity of the
noise amplitude and the size of lookup table. Simulation result indicates that when double the lookup
size, the noise amplitude decreases about 6dB; b. the influence to the noise generation which is leaded
in by the rank of the polynomial approximate coefficients, the higher this rank is, the better the result
comes. An approximate function is proposed about this relationship. (2). the measurement range,
operation complexity, quality of operation, and applicability of the arctangent approach are discussed
for an effective digital realization.
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