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Sensors 2011, 11, 806-824; doi:10.3390/s110100806 OPEN ACCESS sensors ISSN 1424-8220 /journal/sensors Review Recent Advances in the Design of Electro-Optic Sensors for Minimally Destructive Microwave Field Probing Dong-Joon Lee 1,*, No-Weon Kang 1, Jun-Ho Choi 2, Junyeon Kim 2 and John F. Whitaker 3 1 Division of Physical Metrology, Korea Research Institute of Standards and Science, Yuseong-gu, Daejeon 305-340, Korea; E-Mail: nwkang@kriss.re.kr (N.-W.K.) 2 The 4th RD Institute, Agency for Defense Development, Yuseong-gu, Daejeon 305-600, Korea; E-Mails: junhochoi@add.re.kr (J.H.C.); juny@add.re.kr (J.Y.K.) 3 Center for Ultrafast Optical Science, Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI 48109, USA; E-Mail: whitaker@ (J.F.W.) * Author to whom correspondence should be addressed; E-Mail: dongjoonlee@kriss.re.kr; Tel.: +82-42-868-5978; Fax: +82-42-868-5018. Received: 8 December 2010; in revised form: 4 January 2011 / Accepted: 11 January 2011 / Published: 12 January 2011 Abstract: In this paper we review recent design methodologies for fully dielectric electro-optic sensors that have applications in non-destructive evaluation (NDE) of devices and materials that radiate, guide, or otherwise may be impacted by microwave fields. In many practical NDE situations, fiber-coupled-sensor configurations are preferred due to their advantages over free-space bulk sensors in terms of optical alignment, spatial resolution, and especi