A microwave photonic Doppler frequency shift (DFS) and angle of arrival (AOA) measurement method based on a dual-parallel dual-drive Mach–Zehnder modulator (DP-DDMZM) is proposed and demonstrated. A sawtooth wave signal is used to drive the DC...
Since its first application toward displacement measurements in the early-1960s, laser feedback interferometry has become a fast-developing precision measurement modality with many kinds of lasers. By employing the frequency-shifted optical feedback,...
A novel multipoint fiber loop ringdown (FLRD) strain sensing system using frequency-shifted interferometry (FSI) is proposed and experimentally validated. Compared to conventional multipoint FLRD techniques, this scheme measures the decay rate of the...
We have measured the coefficient of the voltage induced frequency shift (VIFS) of a 32.768 KHz quartz tuning fork. Three vibration modes were studied: one prong oscillating, two prongs oscillating in the same direction, and two prongs oscillating in...
This study and verification are based on the Brillouin frequency shift (BFS), which is related to the strain and temperature changes of a single-mode fiber, because such a shifted frequency can be quantitatively measured and converted to strain and t...
A protein concentration measurement system with two-port flexural plate-wave (FPW) biosensors using a frequency-shift readout technique is presented in this paper. The proposed frequency-shift readout method employs a peak detecting scheme to measure...
Velocity is vital information for navigation and oceanic engineering. Coherent Doppler sonar is an accurate tool for velocity measurement, but its use is limited due to velocity ambiguity. Velocity measured by frequency shift has no velocity ambiguit...
The expanded uncertainty of the measured Brillouin scattering shift frequencies is essential in assessing the measurements of parameters of various materials. We describe the general operation principles of a Brillouin light scattering (BLS) spectrom...
Brillouin scattering-based distributed optical fiber sensors have been successfully employed in various applications in recent decades, because of benefits such as small size, light weight, electromagnetic immunity, and continuous monitoring of tempe...
A novel photonic-assisted system for realizing the simultaneous measurement of Doppler frequency shift (DFS) and angle of arrival (AOA) is proposed. It is a simplified structure that is based on a dual-polarization dual-drive Mach–Zehnder modul...
The electro-mechanical characteristics of piezoelectric actuators which have being driven are evaluated in this paper. The force generated by actuators is measured as an inertial force of a corner cub prism which is attached to the actuators. The Dop...
A frequency-shift keying (FSK) radar in the 2.45-GHz band is proposed for highly accurate vital-signs detection. The measurement accuracy of the proposed detector for the heartbeat is increased by using the cross-correlation between the phase differe...
In this study distributed optic fiber has been used to measure both the Rayleigh and Brillouin frequency shift of two different sandstone core samples under controlled hydrostatic confining and pore pressure in the laboratory. The Berea sandstone cor...
In this manuscript, an underwater target tracking problem with passive sensors is considered. The measurements used to track the target trajectories are (i) only bearing angles, and (ii) Doppler-shifted frequencies and bearing angles. Measurement noi...
Multitude applications of photonic devices and technologies for the generation and manipulation of arbitrary and random microwave waveforms, at unprecedented processing speeds, have been proposed in the literature over the past three decades. This cl...
In this paper, a novel measurement system based on Quartz Crystal Microbalances is presented. The proposed solution was conceived specifically to overcome the measurement problems related to Quartz Crystal Microbalance (QCM) applications in dielectri...
In this paper, we report the development of a frequency-shifted (FS) terahertz (THz) wave source for the non-destructive inspection of buildings. Currently, terahertz-time domain spectroscopy (THz-TDS) is the mainstream method for non-destructive ins...
With an increase in fluid densities in centrifugal compressors, fluid-structure interaction and coupled acoustoelastic modes receive growing attention to avoid machine failure. Besides the vibrational behavior of the impeller, acoustic modes building...
Phase measuring deflectometry (PMD) stands as an extremely important technique for specular surface measurement. However, the parasitic reflection from the rear surface poses a challenge for PMD. To solve this problem, this paper proposes an effectiv...
Microwave photonics is a promising and rapidly developing interdisciplinary field. It combines microwave and photonic techniques to generate, transmit, process, and manipulate microwave signals by using the advantages of broadband, high frequency, an...
For many years, the navigation team at the French Space Agency (CNES) has been developing its Precise Point Positioning project. The goal was initially to promote a technique called undifferenced ambiguity resolution. One of the main characteristics...
The paper covers one of the communication technologies used in wireless sensor networks. We have presented improvements in existing radio frequency identification (RFID) systems to address the problem of the phase selection in active load modulation...
The quartz crystal microbalance (QCM) has been widely used in laboratory settings as an analytical tool for recognizing and discriminating biological and chemical molecules of interest. As a result, recent studies have shown there to be considerable...
Blood viscosity measurements are crucial for the diagnosis of cardiovascular and hematological diseases. Traditional blood viscosity measurements have obvious limitations because of their expensive equipment usage and large sample consumption. In thi...
In this paper, a piezoelectric impedance frequency shift method is developed to estimate the bolt preload for the detection of bolt looseness in engineering structures. An experimental device that allows the precision control of the axial preload for...
The self-comparison method is a powerful tool in the uncertainty evaluation of optical lattice clocks, but any drifts will cause a frequency offset between the two compared clock loops and thus lead to incorrect measurement result. We propose a drift...
Second-order Zeeman frequency shift is one of the major systematic factors affecting the frequency uncertainty performance of cesium atomic fountain clock. Second-order Zeeman frequency shift is calculated by experimentally measuring the central freq...
Structured illumination microscopy (SIM) has attracted much attention from researchers due to its high accuracy, high efficiency, and strong adaptability. In SIM, demodulation is a key point to recovering three-dimensional topography, which directly...
The Zeeman shift plays an important role in the evaluation of optical lattice clocks since a strong bias magnetic field is applied for departing Zeeman sublevels and defining a quantization axis. We demonstrated the frequency correction and uncertain...
A distributed optical fiber sensor with the capability of simultaneously measuring temperature and strain is proposed using a large effective area non-zero dispersion shifted fiber (LEAF) with sub-meter spatial resolution. The Brillouin frequency shi...
The frequency shift of the Raman modes in strontium tungstate (SrWO4) was investigated in the temperature range from 15 to 295 K. The experimental temperature dependence of the shift was analyzed using both the lattice dynamical calculations and the...
A time difference method to conveniently measure the phase shift between output wavelength and intensity of distributed feedback laser diodes (DFB-LDs) was proposed. This approach takes advantage of asymmetric absorption positions at the same wavelen...
A simple photonics-based dual-channel system is proposed to simultaneously measure the Doppler frequency shift (DFS) and angle of arrival (AOA) of microwave signals. The system applies two parallel push–pull Mach–Zehnder modulators (MZMs)...
A differential multi-frequency laser Doppler velocimetry is demonstrated, utilizing the synchronized multimode of a mode-locked distributed Bragg reflector laser. This scheme enables the simultaneous detection of multiple Doppler frequency shifts. Mu...
In this study, we address the challenge of estimating the resonance frequency of a photoacoustic detector (PAD) gas cell under varying temperature conditions, which is crucial for improving the accuracy of gas concentration measurements. We introduce...
Observing the curing reaction of epoxy resins is a key to quality assurance in fibre composite production. The evaluation of electrical impedance spectra is an established monitoring method. Such impedance spectra contain the physical effects of dipo...
Elevated intracranial fluid volume can drive intracranial pressure increases, which can potentially result in numerous neurological complications or death. This study’s focus was to develop a passive skin patch sensor for the head that would non-inva...
The 3D measuring range and accuracy in traditional active optical sensing, such as Fourier transform profilometry, are influenced by the zero frequency of the captured patterns. The phase-shifting technique is commonly applied to remove the zero comp...
In order to develop a fast, sensitive and easy-to-produce biosensor, a high-quality microwave split-ring resonator is going to be developed. In the final sensing device, a blood sample will be placed as a droplet on the sensitive area of the sensor....
Film bulk acoustic resonators (FBAR) are mass sensitive, label-free biosensors that allow monitoring of the interaction between biomolecules. In this paper we use the FBAR to measure the binding of calcium and the CaMKII peptide to calmodulin. Becaus...
The measurement accuracy of Brillouin scattering spectra is crucial for ocean remote sensing by Brillouin scattering lidar. Due to the limited resolution of ICCD cameras, the traditional processing methods remain at the pixel or partial sub-pixel lev...
This paper presents a new method to improve the long-term frequency stability of an oven-controlled crystal oscillator (OCXO) without an external reference source. The frequency drift of the crystal oscillator can be obtained in real time by measurin...
Microwave sensors have shown significant potential for glucose detection. However, temperature fluctuations have the drawback of interfering with the measurement accuracy of microwave sensors. In this work, a novel microwave sensor based on the twist...
Frictional characteristics of a small aerostatic linear bearing are accurately evaluated by means of a method, in which the force acting on the moving part of the bearing is measured as the inertial force. An optical interferometer is newly developed...
Electronic circuits and systems often require continuous monitoring of their temperature. For most sensors, voltage is the temperature-sensitive parameter; however, electrothermal filters are one of a few exceptions, for which signal frequency or pha...
The doubly clamped microelectromechanical system (MEMS) beam resonators exhibit extremely high sensitivity to tiny changes in the resonance frequency owing to their high quality (Q-) factors, even at room temperature. Such a sensitive frequency-shift...
A Doppler velocity simulation method based on serrodyne modulation is proposed to achieve the frequency shift from hundred hertz to megahertz. One sub-phase modulation (PM) in a dual-parallel dual-drive Mach–Zehnder modulator loads a sawtooth s...
The nonlinearity of a mechanical oscillator may lead to the generation of the macroscopic quantum states, which are useful for precision measurement. Measuring the nonlinearity of a mechanical oscillator becomes important in order to effectively asse...
Manipulating orthogonally polarized waves independently in a single metasurface is pivotal. However, independently controlling the phase shifts of orthogonally polarized waves is difficult, especially in the same frequency bands. Here, we propose a r...
In measuring object rotational velocity using vortex beam, the incident light on a tilted object causes spectral broadening, which significantly interferes with the identification of the true rotational Doppler shift (RDS) peak. We employed a velocit...
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