RESONANT OPTICAL GYROSCOPE USING OPTICAL FREQUENCY COMBS EACH OF WHOSE SPECTRAL COMPONENTS ARE NOT PHASE LOCKED

A technique is provided for reducing angle random walk (ARW) noise in a resonant optical gyroscope (ROG) using a pair of optical frequency combs. The ARW noise is reduced by propagating each optical frequency comb through a dispersive optical component. As a result, at least some of the spectral components, of an optical frequency comb emitted from a dispersive optical component, are no longer phase locked. As a result, ROG rotation rate accuracy is increased.