Multichannel interferometer with phase generated carrier demodulation and quadrature error correction

摘要

Apparatus for eliminating sign uncertainty in a coherent phase generated carrier demodulator in a multi-channel sensor system has a downconverter array arranged to separate the in-phase component I and the quadrature phase component of the sensor output for each channel. A coordinate transformer uses the in-phase component and quadrature phase component to calculate an arctangent for the phase angle for each channel. A digital signal processor adds 180° to each arctangent calculation for which the tangent is a negative number.