A fiber optic gyroscope signal process dither system permits application
of a low amplitude dither signal for many sampling periods without
increasing the noise in the sampled outputs due to residual dither
signals. A dither loop and an accumulator are added to a closed loop
fiber optic gyroscope rotation sensing system. The dither loop has a
delay and a gain that are adjusted to match the gain and delay of the
fiber gyro loop. A zero mean dither of amplitude sufficient to break up
the deadband is injected into to gyro and the dither loop. The dither
loop filters the dither signal in the same manner as the gyro loop to
provide a signal that is input to a differencing circuit to remove the
dither signal from the gyro output.