Optical fibers, distributed fiber sensing, distributed acoustic sensing (DAS), lasers, scattering, nonlinear fiber optics

Doctoral Theses (only as Thesis Supervisor)

2004: Sonia Martín - Generación de supercontinuo en fibras ópticas usando fuentes de bombeo continuo (Excellent cum Laude, Extraordinary Doctoral Prize);

2008: Laura Abrardi - Estudio experimental de nuevos mecanismos de control espectral de fuentes supercontinuas
generadas con bombeo continuo (Excellent cum Laude);

2012: Sirona Valdueza - Nitride-based semiconductor nanostructures for applications in optical communications at 1.5 mum (Excellent cum Laude, Extraordinary Doctoral Prize);

2013: Massimo Filograno - Development of fiber optic sensors for the high-speed railway (Excellent cum Laude);

2014: Xabier Angulo - Ultra-long range Brillouin optical time-domain analysis sensors (Excellent cum Laude);

2014: Hugo Martins - Distributed and remote fiber sensing assisted by Raman (Excellent cum Laude, also received the Extraordinary Doctoral Prize);

2015: Laura Monteagudo - Development of lll-nitride-based waveguides for application in all-optical integrated circuits at 1.55 um (Excellent cum Laude, also received the Extraordinary Doctoral Prize);

2015: Matías Calcerrada - Microstructured capillary electrophoresis as a novel frontier technology applied to the analysis of explosives and questioned documents (Excellent cum Laude, also received the Extraordinary Doctoral Prize);

2017: Alejandro Domínguez-López - Optimized Long-Range and High-Resolution Brillouin Optical Time Domain Analyzers (Excellent cum Laude);

2017: Arantzazu Núñez Cascajero - Development of nitrides based on InN for sensor applications (Excellent cum Laude);

2018: Marco Jiménez-Rodríguez - Development of passive ultrafast fiber lasers at telecom wavelengths using Indium Nitide as saturable absorber (Excellent cum Laude);

Conference involvement and participation to societies.
- Member of the organizing committee of OPTOEL 2013 and ECOC 2015.
- Member of the technical programme committee of the following conferences: OFS (2014-present day), OFC (2016-present day), EWOFS (2016-apresent day), AOP (2011-present day, ACP2014, OSA Sensors 2015, APOS 2016, OPTOEL (2007-present day).
- Technical Programme Committee Chair of OFS-26 (2018)
- Senior Member of the Optical Society of America since 2012.

Spin-off and technology transfer
Miguel González Herráez was co-founder and Chief Innovation Advisor of the company FOCUS SL. FOCUS SL was a technology-based company dedicated to the development, production and marketing of distributed sensing systems for energy, civil engineering, transport and security applications. This company generates an annual income of> 200,000 € and has been awarded by the Repsol Foundation with one of its “Fondo de emprendedores” Awards. The basis of the know-how of FOCUS lies in its patents, of which Miguel González Herráez is co-author. The transfer of know-how to the company is done through technology transfer contracts as seen in the contracts section. FOCUS SL was acquired by the Fibercom group in Dec. 2018.

Contracts and technology transfer as PI
1. “Asesoramiento y realización de un demostrador para la medida de tensiones y estrés en estructuras civiles usando el efecto Brillouin en fibras ópticas y redes de Bragg sobre fibras ópticas” (2008) Funding entity: OBRUM, S. L. (21.100 €+ VAT).
2. “Medida de la distribución de temperatura en un transformador mediante fibra óptica. Fases A y B” (2009) Funding entity: Fundación para el Fomento de la Innovación Industrial (33.800 €+VAT)
3. “Desarrollo de Nuevas Técnicas y Sistemas de Información para la Rehabilitación Sostenible de Pavimentos de Carreteras (REPARA 2.0)” Funding entity: CHM Obras e Infraestructuras, S.A. (57.747,25 Euros + VAT)
4. “Research and development in DOFS technology” Funding entities: Omnisens SA and Aragon Photonics Labs SL (360.000,00€+VAT)

Contracts and technology transfer as participant of the research group
1. “Detección temprana de amenazas a la integridad de gaseoductos usando tecnología en fibra óptica”. (2013). Funding entity: FOCUS S.L. (84.000 €+VAT).
2. “DINATRANS: Transiciones Dinámicas para Vías de Alta Velocidad”. (2014). Funding entity: Fundación Centro de Innovación de infraestructuras inteligentes ‘CI3’ (19.200 €+VAT)
3. “Asesoramiento sobre sensores distribuidos de fibra óptica” (2014, 2015, 2016 & 2017). Funding entity: FOCUS S.L. (Spain) (36.000 €+VAT)