阅读说明：本技术 一种基于光电振荡器的传感测量装置及方法 (Sensing measurement device and method based on photoelectric oscillator ) 是由 陈翰 乔钦梁 闵靖 于 2020-06-12 设计创作，主要内容包括：本发明提供了一种基于光电振荡器的传感测量装置及方法,属于测量、测试的技术领域,不需要借助外部大型仪器便可快速完成光电振荡信号检测,短时间内获得信号起振位置并估算振荡峰值中心频率。该装置包括：通带分割模块、通带信号检测模块、终端处理显示模块。通带分割模块包含宽带低噪放大器、耦合器以及多个带通滤波器；通带信号检测模块包含电放大器、检波器、电压比较器以及可调电压源；终端处理显示模块包含二进制编码器、终端处理器以及信息显示器。光电振荡传感器输出的振荡信号被分割成多个待检测片段信号,通过对其检波判别获得拥有起振信号的通带信息,将相应通带进行合并解算,由此获得振荡信号起振位置,完成振荡信号的快速检测。(The invention provides a sensing measurement device and a sensing measurement method based on a photoelectric oscillator, belongs to the technical field of measurement and testing, can quickly finish photoelectric oscillation signal detection without an external large instrument, obtains a signal oscillation starting position in a short time and estimates the central frequency of an oscillation peak value. The device includes: the device comprises a passband segmentation module, a passband signal detection module and a terminal processing display module. The passband segmentation module comprises a broadband low noise amplifier, a coupler and a plurality of bandpass filters; the passband signal detection module comprises an electric amplifier, a wave detector, a voltage comparator and an adjustable voltage source; the terminal processing display module comprises a binary encoder, a terminal processor and an information display. The oscillation signal output by the photoelectric oscillation sensor is divided into a plurality of to-be-detected fragment signals, passband information with the oscillation starting signal is obtained through detection and discrimination of the fragment signals, and the corresponding passbands are combined and resolved, so that the oscillation starting position of the oscillation signal is obtained, and the rapid detection of the oscillation signal is completed.)

1. A photoelectric oscillator-based sensing measurement apparatus, comprising:

the passband segmentation module is used for receiving the oscillation signal output by the photoelectric oscillator and segmenting the oscillation signal into at least three paths of to-be-detected segment signals with different center frequencies;

the input end of the passband signal detection module is coupled with the to-be-detected fragment signals output by the passband segmentation module, and the judgment result is output after judging whether each path of to-be-detected fragment signals contain the oscillation starting signals according to the oscillation starting signal judgment voltage input from the outside; and a process for the preparation of a coating,

and the input end of the terminal processing module is connected with the judgment result output by the band signal detection module, and the starting oscillation position information of the oscillation signal is analyzed from the judgment result and the central frequency of the oscillation peak value is estimated.

2. The optoelectronic oscillator-based sensing and measuring device of claim 1, wherein the passband splitting module comprises:

the input end of the broadband low-noise amplifier is connected with the oscillation signal output by the electric oscillator and outputs the amplified oscillation signal;

the input end of the coupler is connected with the amplified oscillation signals, and at least three paths of oscillation signals with the same power are output; and a process for the preparation of a coating,

and each band-pass filter receives one path of oscillation signal output by the coupler and then outputs one path of fragment signal to be detected.

3. The optoelectronic oscillator-based sensing and measuring device according to claim 1, wherein the passband signal detecting module comprises a number of detecting channels corresponding to the number of the to-be-detected segment signals, and each detecting channel comprises:

the input end of the electric amplifier is connected with one path of to-be-detected fragment signals at the output end of the passband segmentation module, and the amplified to-be-detected fragment signals are output;

the input end of the detector is connected with the output end of the electric amplifier, and the detector detects the envelope peak value of the amplified segment signal to be detected and outputs peak value detection voltage; and a process for the preparation of a coating,

and one input end of the voltage comparator is connected with the output end of the detector, the other input end of the voltage comparator is connected with the judgment voltage of the oscillation starting signal input from the outside, and the judgment result of whether the segment signal to be detected contains the oscillation starting signal is output.

4. The optoelectronic oscillator-based sensing and measuring device of claim 1, wherein the terminal processing module comprises:

the binary encoder is used for acquiring and encoding the output of the passband signal detection module to obtain binary codes representing whether each path of to-be-detected fragment signals at each sampling moment contains oscillation starting signals; and a process for the preparation of a coating,

and the processor is used for pre-storing the bandwidth and the central frequency of each path of fragment signals to be detected, resolving the binary code, combining the fragment signals to be detected containing the oscillation starting signals at each sampling moment to obtain the oscillation starting position information of the oscillation signals at each sampling moment, and selecting the central frequency of the band-pass signals obtained after combining the fragment signals to be detected as the central frequency of the oscillation peak value at each sampling moment.

5. The optoelectronic oscillator-based sensing and measuring device as recited in claim 3, wherein a periodic square wave signal is applied to the CNTL terminal of the detector to adjust the detection sampling frequency of the oscillating signal.

6. The optoelectronic oscillator-based sensing and measuring device according to claim 4, wherein the terminal processing module further includes an information display for visually processing the oscillation starting position information and the center frequency of the oscillation peak of the oscillation signal at each sampling time.

7. The optoelectronic oscillator-based sensing and measuring device of claim 1, wherein the externally inputted oscillation starting signal discrimination voltage is provided by an adjustable stable voltage source.

8. The optoelectronic oscillator-based sensing and measuring device of claim 7, wherein the tunable stable DC voltage V outputted by the adjustable stable voltage source_DisIs a V_Dis＝envelope(V_Noise)+V_BiaWherein, envelope (V)_Nosie) Is the noise signal envelope voltage, V, of the photoelectric oscillation sensor at the initial stage of oscillation_BiaFor set bias voltages, V, distinguishing noise signals_BiaIs not more than envelope (V)_Nosie) 10% of the total.

9. A sensing measurement method based on a photoelectric oscillator is characterized by being realized by the device of any one of claims 1 to 8, and being characterized in that a starting oscillation signal discrimination voltage is set according to the envelope voltage of a noise signal output by the sensing measurement device when no oscillation signal is applied, the bandwidth and the center frequency of each path of segment signals to be detected are set according to the parameters of a band-pass division device selected by a band-pass division module, the starting oscillation signal discrimination voltage is input into the band-pass signal detection module, the oscillation signal output by the photoelectric oscillator is sent into the band-pass division module, and the data stream output by a terminal processing module is collected.

10. The method for sensing measurement based on optoelectronic oscillator of claim 9, wherein the method for setting the decision voltage of the oscillation starting signal according to the envelope voltage of the noise signal outputted from the sensing measurement device when no oscillation signal is applied comprises: and detecting the noise signal envelope voltage output by the sensing and measuring device when the oscillation signal is not applied, and rotating an output adjusting knob of the adjustable stable voltage source to enable the output voltage of the output adjusting knob to be larger than the stable direct current voltage value of the noise signal envelope voltage.

Technical Field

The invention relates to a signal detection technology, in particular to a sensing measurement device and a sensing measurement method based on a photoelectric oscillator, and belongs to the technical field of measurement and testing.

Background

In recent years, the concept of microwave photonics has been developed and applied in the field of optical fiber sensing, and a photoelectric oscillator is an important device in microwave photonics. The earliest opto-electric hybrid oscillators were proposed by a.neyer and e.voges in 1982, using optical devices and microwave devices. The prior art optoelectronic oscillator structure generally includes a laser source, an intensity modulator, a long optical fiber, an optical filter or a microwave filter, a microwave amplifier or an optical amplifier, a photodetector, and other optoelectronic devices, and these components are used to build a positive feedback loop to realize self-oscillation. Since the optoelectronic oscillator can generate microwave signals with high frequency and high quality, its application in sensing has attracted more and more attention, and reported sensors include temperature, stress, distance, length, and acoustic wave based on the optoelectronic oscillator. For example, the detailed description of the photoelectric oscillator for sensing and measuring temperature and stress is introduced in the 'novel low-phase noise OEO and its sensing application research'; the photoelectric oscillator is used for sensing and measuring absolute distance in detail in a wide-range high-precision absolute distance measuring technology based on an alternative oscillation starting photoelectric oscillator; the OEO as an Acoustic Sensor describes in detail The use of an opto-electronic oscillator for Acoustic sensing measurements. The sensing measurement is based on a photoelectric oscillator structure of a microwave photon filter, the physical quantity to be measured is connected with the central frequency of the microwave photon filter through some designs, and then information related to the physical quantity to be measured is obtained by monitoring the frequency of a microwave signal generated by the photoelectric oscillator, so that the sensing purpose can be achieved; the discrimination method for photoelectric oscillation sensing measurement uses a spectrum analyzer with high resolution and high speed to measure the frequency of a microwave signal, and can effectively improve the demodulation speed and resolution of a sensing signal, but the system is heavy and complex and has hysteresis in inspection time.

At present, the photoelectric oscillation sensing measurement is realized by accessing a microwave sensing signal generated by a photoelectric oscillator into a signal spectrum analyzer for analysis, and the analyzed microwave sensing signal is output when the photoelectric oscillator oscillates to be stable, so that the following defects exist: (1) accurate measurement of the microwave sensing signal can be realized only after the oscillation starting signal is completely stable, and an accurate measurement result needs to be obtained at the cost of time cost; (2) the sensing signal detection at the initial oscillation starting stage is directly related to the measurement of subsequent sensing signals, and the spectrometer needs to adjust various parameters to accurately detect signals in a small range when analyzing the signals, so that the spectrometer is not suitable for the detection of the signals at the initial oscillation starting stage. At the present stage, research on a rapid detection method for a sensing signal at the initial oscillation starting stage is less, however, rapid detection of a microwave sensing signal at the initial oscillation starting stage is also very necessary, whether the photoelectric oscillator loop starts oscillation or not is judged according to a sensing signal detection result at the initial stage, and then the oscillation starting position of the sensing microwave signal is judged, so that prior reference is provided for subsequent adjustment of a photoelectric oscillator loop device and demodulation of sensing information. The application aims at providing a device for rapidly detecting a sensing microwave signal output by a photoelectric oscillation sensor at the initial oscillation stage.

Disclosure of Invention

The present invention provides a sensing measurement apparatus and method based on a photo-electric oscillator, which can detect a sensing microwave signal output by a photo-electric oscillation sensor at an initial oscillation stage, thereby obtaining an initial oscillation position of the signal at the initial oscillation stage and estimating a central frequency of an oscillation peak of the signal, so as to implement rapid detection of the initial oscillation stage of the sensing microwave signal, and solve the technical problem that the existing sensing signal detection technology based on the photo-electric oscillator lacks a rapid detection method at the initial oscillation stage.

The invention adopts the following technical scheme for realizing the aim of the invention:

a photoelectric oscillator-based sensing measurement apparatus, comprising: the device comprises a passband segmentation module, a passband signal detection module and a terminal processing display module. The passband segmentation module comprises a broadband low noise amplifier, a coupler and a plurality of bandpass filters; the passband signal detection module comprises an electric amplifier, a wave detector, a voltage comparator and an adjustable voltage source; the terminal processing display module comprises a binary encoder, a terminal processor and a signal display.

The method comprises the steps that oscillation signals output by a photoelectric oscillation sensor are amplified by a broadband low-noise amplifier and then transmitted to a coupler, the coupler distributes the amplified oscillation signals to n paths of pass bands in an equal power mode, wherein the positive integer n is larger than or equal to 3, the bandwidth of the signals is divided into pass bands with different center frequencies through n band-pass filters with different center frequencies, the oscillation signals are filtered by the n band-pass filters to be divided into n paths of fragment signals to be detected and then stored in the pass bands. The segment signals to be detected in each pass band enter a detector after being amplified by an electric amplifier, and the detector performs peak detection on the segment signals to be detected in the pass band. The adjustable stable voltage source outputs oscillation starting signal discrimination voltage, the segment signals to be detected in the n pass bands are detected by the detector and then output to the voltage comparator to be compared with the oscillation starting signal discrimination voltage, whether the pass band signals of each path contain oscillation starting signals or not is discriminated, and corresponding high and low level signals are output. The n paths of discrimination signals output by the passband signal detection module are input into a binary encoder, and the encoder acquires and encodes and outputs binary codes, wherein the binary codes carry information of the position of the passband signals and information of whether the passband signals have oscillation starting fragment signals. And the binary code is sent to a terminal processor for resolving, the oscillation starting position information of the oscillation signal is resolved, the central frequency of the oscillation peak value is estimated at the same time, and finally the processed data is transmitted to an information display for information visualization, so that the rapid detection of the photoelectric oscillation sensing signal is completed.

In the passband segmentation module, the bandwidth of the broadband low-noise amplifier should be larger than the detection range of the oscillation signal, the detection of the oscillation signal should be performed in the bandwidth, and the oscillation signal is amplified by the broadband low-noise amplifier for subsequent signal segmentation.

In the passband segmentation module, n bandpass filters should have different center frequencies, and the bandwidth of each filter needs to be specially selected, so that the continuity of segmented passbands is ensured, and the continuity and accuracy of detection are ensured.

In the passband signal detection module, the detector should be set to a peak hold mode, in which the output voltage of the detector is in a linear relationship with the envelope peak voltage of the input signal in the detection time period, and the detection frequency is controlled by controlling the high-low level jump frequency at the CNTL end of the detector.

In the passband signal detection module, an adjustable stable voltage source outputs a tunable stable direct current voltage as a starting oscillation signal discrimination voltage V_Dis. Oscillation starting signal discrimination voltage V_DisThe noise signal envelope voltage envelope (V) of the initial oscillation stage of the photoelectric oscillation sensor_Nosie) And a bias voltage V_BiaComposition V_Dis＝envelope(V_Noise)+V_BiaWherein the bias voltage V_BiaThe amplitude value does not exceed envelope (V)_Nosie) 10% of the total.

In the passband signal detection module, the detection output peak voltage of the detector is compared with the oscillation starting signal discrimination voltage V_DisThe magnitude relation and correspondingly outputs high and low levels.

In the terminal processing display module, a binary encoder collects and encodes the detection voltage output by the n-path voltage comparator and outputs a binary code.

In the terminal processing display module, the center frequency information and the bandwidth information of each pass-band signal are stored in a memory of the terminal processing display module, and the oscillation starting position information of the oscillation signal is obtained and the oscillation peak center frequency of the oscillation signal is estimated at the same time by resolving the binary code.

And in the terminal processing and displaying module, visualizing the oscillation signal oscillation starting position information resolved by the terminal equipment and the estimated oscillation peak value center frequency information.

By adopting the technical scheme, the invention has the following beneficial effects:

(1) aiming at the defect that the existing microwave sensing signal detection method can not quickly detect the sensing signal at the initial oscillation stage, the application provides a device and a method for quickly detecting whether the signal at the initial oscillation stage starts oscillation without accessing a frequency spectrograph, and by adopting the oscillation starting processing detection method, a sensing system can be timely adjusted when the oscillation starting signal is not generated; the method can provide the oscillation starting range when the oscillation starting signal is generated, and provides corresponding reference information for the detection of a subsequent frequency spectrograph, so that the defect that the existing sensing signal detection scheme cannot rapidly detect the initial-stage signal of oscillation starting is overcome, the whole-process measurement of the sensing signal in the oscillation period can be realized by complementing the existing detection technology, the existing sensing signal detection method is perfected, and the detection means is enriched.

(2) This application adopts ripe electronic device products such as band pass filter, wave detector, voltage comparator can realize the measurement of initial stage sensing signal that shakes, need not to have reduced the hardware cost with the help of outside large-scale instruments such as the spectrum appearance that the structure is complicated and the cost is expensive, has low cost, advantage that the reliability is high, is favorable to commercialization popularization and application.

(3) The method has the advantages of reducing the response time of a sensing measurement system based on the photoelectric oscillator, applying periodic square wave signals to the CNTL end of the detector for the detection sampling frequency of oscillation signals, enabling the detection frequency to reach 1ms level, and simultaneously ensuring the high response rate of the system by selecting a high-speed voltage comparator, a high-performance device such as a high-performance single chip microcomputer and the like.

(4) The method has the advantages that the system hardware is flexibly configured for the sensing measurement systems with different measurement accuracies, for example, the number of band-pass filters can be increased to improve the measurement bandwidth range; the bandwidth of the band-pass filter can be selectively refined under the condition that the measurement bandwidth is not changed, namely, the number n of the divided bandwidths is increased to improve the measurement precision of the system, and the system has good structural flexibility.

Drawings

Fig. 1 is a block diagram of a device for detecting a microwave signal sensed by a photoelectric oscillator according to the present invention.

Fig. 2 is a flow chart of the method for detecting the microwave signal based on the sensing of the photoelectric oscillator according to the present invention.

Fig. 3 is a diagram of the detection coding data of the sensing microwave signal output by the optoelectronic oscillator according to the embodiment of the present invention, two detection time nodes are selected for illustration, and the corresponding binary codes are shown in the diagram.

Detailed Description

The technical scheme of the invention is explained in detail in the following with reference to the attached drawings.

As shown in fig. 1, the sensing and measuring device based on the optoelectronic oscillator disclosed by the invention comprises a passband segmentation module, a passband signal detection module and a terminal processing and displaying module, and can complete the detection of the microwave signal sensed by the optoelectronic oscillator and judge the oscillation starting position of the optoelectronic oscillator.

The passband segmentation module comprises a low-noise broadband amplifier, an n-path coupler and n bandpass filters, wherein n is a positive integer larger than or equal to 3. A sensing microwave signal output from the photoelectric oscillation sensor is input into a low-noise broadband amplifier for amplification so as to be used for subsequent signal segmentation; the amplified microwave signals are subjected to equal power distribution to n paths through n paths of couplers, and the n paths of microwave signals are subjected to filtering processing through band-pass filters with different center frequencies but continuous bandwidths and then output to be detected fragment signals coupled to the input end of the passband signal detection module.

The passband signal detection module comprises n electrical amplifiers, n detectors, an adjustable stable voltage source and n voltage comparators. And (3) amplifying each path of fragment signals to be detected by an electric amplifier, and compensating the insertion loss introduced by a device and a wiring. The n-path wave detector performs peak detection on each path of to-be-detected segment signals to output peak voltage signals, and the adjustable voltage source voltage outputs tunable stable direct current voltage serving as oscillation starting signal discrimination voltage V_DisAnd the voltage comparator receives the two paths of signals to perform voltage comparison, and outputs whether the segment signals to be detected contain high and low level signals of the oscillation starting signals.

The terminal processing display module comprises a binary encoder, terminal equipment and an information display. The binary encoder collects high and low level signals output by the n voltage comparators, encodes the signals in sequence according to bits and outputs binary codes. The terminal equipment memory stores information such as center frequency, bandwidth and the like of n-path band-pass filters, receives binary codes output by the encoder, carries out bit-by-bit calculation, combines pass bands with oscillation starting signals to obtain oscillation starting position information of the oscillation signals, selects the center frequency after the pass bands are combined as the approximate peak center frequency of the oscillation starting signals, and outputs corresponding data streams to be visually processed by the information display module.

When the device shown in fig. 1 is used for sensing measurement, the corresponding oscillation starting signal discrimination voltage is set according to the noise signal envelope voltage output by the sensing system when no sensing quantity is applied, and the oscillation starting signal discrimination voltage is input to the passband signal detection module. After the photoelectric oscillation signal is input into the passband segmentation module, the working process of the device is as shown in fig. 2, the broadband low-noise amplifier outputs the sensing oscillation signal after the photoelectric oscillation signal method is adopted, the passband segmentation module segments the sensing oscillation signal into n segment signals to be detected and inputs the segment signals into the passband signal detection module to judge the oscillation starting signal, and corresponding judgment logic level is output; and the terminal processing module collects and encodes the judgment logic level and calculates the judgment logic level, and performs information visualization processing on the oscillation signal oscillation starting position information and the estimated oscillation peak value center frequency to finish the quick detection of the initial oscillation stage of the sensing oscillation signal.

The design of the embodiment verifies the feasibility of the method of the device. In this embodiment, the number of passband divisions is 9, i.e., the positive integer n is 9. The broadband low-noise amplifier is an HMC1049-Die broadband amplifier of Analog Devices, and has a frequency range of 0.3-19GHz and a 16dB signal gain. The band-pass filter device model selected in the passband segmentation module is BCFN-1945+, VBFZ-2130+, BFCN-2275+, BFCN-2435+, BFCN-2555+, BFCN-2700+, BFCN-2840+, BFCN-3010+ and ZAFBP-3200+ produced by Mini-Circuits; the corresponding bandwidths are 1850-; the amplifier of the passband signal detection module selects ADL5544 of Analog Devices company, the frequency range of the ADL5544 is 30MHz-6GHz, and the signal gain is 17.4 dB. The detector selects ADL5544 of Analog Devices, the detection range is 450MHz-6GHz, the envelope bandwidth exceeds 10MHz, and the setting mode is a peak detection mode. The voltage comparator selects a high-speed voltage comparator LM319 produced by an ST method, the input voltage range is +/-15V, the typical response time is 80ns, and logic voltages of '1' and '0' are output. And the terminal equipment selects an STM32 embedded single chip microcomputer and stores the center frequency and the bandwidth information of the 9 band-pass filters into a memory of the terminal equipment. Since a few passbands are selected for verifying the feasibility of the scheme, the logic level output by the voltage comparator can be directly coupled to the pin of the STM32 for detection and encoding, and a multi-bit binary encoder can be selected for binary encoding according to detection requirements during implementation operation. The information display selects the LCD1602 capable of displaying 32 characters at the same time, and completes the display of corresponding information.

As shown in fig. 3, the sensing microwave signal output by the optoelectronic oscillator is detected, two detection time nodes are selected for explanation, the detection time point (i) represents a certain time point in the signal oscillation process, the detector detects and outputs the segment signal to be detected in the pass band and compares the detected segment signal with the set oscillation starting signal discrimination voltage through a voltage comparator, and finally 9-bit binary code 001111100 is obtained, which represents that the pass band 3, the pass band 4, the pass band 5, the pass band 6 and the pass band 7 contain oscillation starting signals, the pass bands are combined to obtain the oscillation starting position of the oscillation signal as 2170 plus 2930MHz, and the oscillation peak frequency is estimated as 2550 MHz; and detecting the time point to represent a certain time point in the later period of signal oscillation, finally obtaining 9-bit binary code 000010000, representing that the passband 5 contains an oscillation peak signal, obtaining that the position of the oscillation signal peak signal is 2500 plus 2610MHz, and estimating that the frequency of the oscillation peak is 2555 MHz.