About me

I began my career at the University of Murcia, graduating in 2019 with a BSc in Physics [link]. After graduation, I studied for an interuniversity master's degree in Photonics Science [link] with the participation of the University of Barcelona, Polytechnic of Catalunya, Autonoma of Barcelona, and the Institute of Photonic Sciences (UB, UPC, UAB, ICFO). Once finished, I obtained a PhD position in the Applied Optics Group at the University of Kent [link] under the Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions.

Under the supervision of Prof. Adrian Podoleanu, I've been involved in the European project "Next Generation of Tunable Lasers for Optical Coherence Tomography" [link]. During my PhD, my research focused on swept sources for optical coherence tomography (SS-OCT). Optical coherence tomography is a non-invasive 3D high-resolution imaging technique that uses tunable sources to generate depth scans in its last modality.  The characteristics and performance of the source will strongly determine the quality of the images acquired. Strong efforts have been made in recent years (2010-2020) towards ultrafast and ultra-large bandwidth sources. Sources based on time-stretch are a great solution for high-speed imaging; however, high-speed imaging comes with several challenges that need to be addressed. Moreover, broadband mode-locked lasers are used for this kind of source, so different mode-locked lasers based on nonlinear polarization rotation are examined as candidates for swept sources seed. During my PhD, I researched time-stretch sources, mode-locked lasers, and MEMS-VCSEL and tried to overcome some of the problems that high-speed optical coherence tomography brings.