On October 8, 2021, Dr. Sergi García Cortijo, Postdoctoral Researcher at the Photonic Research Labs, has been awarded by COIT (the Spanish official association of telecommunication engineers) the prize to the best 2020 Spanish Doctoral thesis on Technologies and Applications of Telecommunication Engineering.

The Jury of the XLI call for the Best Doctoral Thesis, Master’s Thesis and Academic Trajectories in Telecommunications Engineering Awards, has awarded this distinction to Sergi García for his work “Distributed radiofrequency signal processing based on space-division multiplexing fibers”, supervised by Dr. José Capmany and Dr. Ivana Gasulla.

According to Dr. Ivana Gasulla “his PhD thesis represents an important milestone to exploit the inherent parallelism of multicore and few-mode fibers to implement sampled discrete true time delay lines, providing in a single optical fiber a compact and efficient approach for both Microwave Photonics signal distribution and processing, which is the main goal of my ERC Consolidator Grant project InnoSpace”.

Furthermore, the true time delay lines that have been developed during his thesis can be applied to a wide range of Information and Communication Technology paradigms besides fiber-wireless communications, such as broadband satellite communications, distributed sensing, medical imaging, optical coherence tomography and quantum communications.