Recent Progress in Microwave Photonic Sensors

WANG Bin; ZHANG Wei-feng; ZHAO Shuang-xiang; FAN Xin-yu

doi:10.12263/DZXB.20211186

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- Recent Progress in Microwave Photonic Sensors
- ACTA ELECTRONICA SINICA Vol. 50, Issue 4, Pages: 769-781(2022)
- 作者机构：
  
  1.北京理工大学信息与电子学院雷达技术研究所，北京 100081
  2.北京理工大学重庆创新中心，重庆 401120
  3.新体制民用雷达重庆市重点实验室，重庆 401120
  4.上海交通大学区域光纤通信网与新型光通信系统国家重点实验室，上海 200240
- 作者简介：
- 基金信息：
- DOI：10.12263/DZXB.20211186
  CLC： TN29;TP212
- Received：31 August 2021，
  
  Revised：2022-01-18，
  
  Published：25 April 2022
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王彬,张伟锋,赵双祥等.微波光子传感技术研究进展综述[J].电子学报,2022,50(04):769-781.

WANG Bin,ZHANG Wei-feng,ZHAO Shuang-xiang,et al.Recent Progress in Microwave Photonic Sensors[J].ACTA ELECTRONICA SINICA,2022,50(04):769-781.
王彬,张伟锋,赵双祥等.微波光子传感技术研究进展综述[J].电子学报,2022,50(04):769-781. DOI： 10.12263/DZXB.20211186.

WANG Bin,ZHANG Wei-feng,ZHAO Shuang-xiang,et al.Recent Progress in Microwave Photonic Sensors[J].ACTA ELECTRONICA SINICA,2022,50(04):769-781. DOI： 10.12263/DZXB.20211186.

摘要

微波光子学是一门研究光与微波相互作用的新型交叉学科，旨在利用现代光学技术实现高频宽带微波信号产生、传输、处理和测量.其中，微波光子传感是微波光子学一个重要的研究领域，它采用光学传感器实现温度、应变、压力等传感参量光域感知，基于微波光子技术实现光域传感信息到微波域的线性映射和转换，结合微波信号处理技术实现传感信号解调，具有传感精度高、测量速度快等显著优势.本文系统性地回顾了微波光子传感技术最新研究进展，介绍了各类微波光子传感技术的基本工作原理，并展望了未来的研究方向和发展趋势.

Abstract

Microwave photonics is a multidisciplinary field that studies the interaction between microwave and optical waves for the generation

transmission

processing

and measurement of wideband microwave signals by means of photonics. Microwave photonic sensors are one of the active sub-fields that uses optical sensors to probe the information of temperature

strain

pressure

etc. and microwave photonic techniques to extract the sensing information accurately

providing unique advantages of high resolution and high speed. This paper comprehensively reviews the recent progress in microwave photonic sensors

introduces the basic principle of microwave photonic sensing

and discusses the potential research directions in the future.

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