The invention relates to a
microwave frequency testing technology, and aims to solve the problems that an existing
microwave frequency measuring method based on
Brillouin scattering is limited by the
Brillouin gain spectrum width, and the frequency measuring resolution is difficult to improve; the invention discloses a high-resolution
microwave frequency measurement technology based on a tunable
Brillouin fiber laser, and the technology comprises the steps: outputting two narrow-linewidth optical carriers through a
laser source, enabling an unknown
signal of an upper
branch to serve as pump light to excite Brillouin after
intensity modulation, enabling a
signal outputted by a vector network analyzer of a lower
branch to serve as probe light after modulation, and enabling the probe light to serve as the probe light after
intensity modulation. The probe light is selectively amplified after interacting with the
Brillouin gain, an electric
delay line is introduced into the Brillouin
resonant cavity, and stepping tuning of the
laser frequency is realized by changing the
voltage applied to a medium on the electric
delay line, so that a to-be-measured frequency
signal is measured at
high resolution; while the
broadband frequency measurement range is maintained, the
frequency resolution of 100 kHz is achieved, and the application potential in the fields of high-resolution
radar signal detection and the like is shown.