Distinctions

2010
European Workshop on Optical Fibre Sensors 2010 (EWOFS’10), Porto, Portugal.
Best Paper Award
Measurement with 2m resolution using a Raman-assisted BOTDA sensor featuring 75 km dynamic range.

S. Martin-Lopez, F. Rodriguez-Barriosa, A. Carrasco-Sanz, P. Corredera, J. D. Ania-Castañon, L. Thevenaz, M. Gonzalez-Herraez.
In: Proc. SPIE, vol. 7653, 2010, p. 76532T, The International Society for Optical Engineering, 2010. ISSN: 1996-756X.
 

2009
20th Conference on Optical Fiber Sensors (OFS20), Edinburg, Scotland
Best ranked contributed paper and best presentation
Optimized configuration for high resolution distributed sensing using Brillouin echoes.
S. Foaleng Mafang, J-C Beugnot and L. Thévenaz
Proceedings of the 20th International Conference on Optical Fibre Sensors, vol. Proc. SPIE
7503, 2009, p. 75032C-4.
 2nd European Workshop on Optical Fibre Sensors, (EWOFS’04), Santander, Spain
2009
20th Conference on Optical Fiber Sensors (OFS20), Edinburg, Scotland
Best ranked postdeadline paper
Time-domain distributed sensor with 1 cm spatial resolution based on Brillouindynamic gratings.
 
K-Y Song, Sanghoon Chin, N. Primerov, and L. Thévenaz
In: Proceedings of the 20th International Conference on Optical Fibre Sensors, vol. Proc.
SPIE 7503, 2009, p. 75037V-4.

2005
17th Conference on Optical Fiber Sensors, Bruges, Belgium
 Best Presentation Award
 Optically-controlled delays in optical fibres using Brillouin-generated slow and fast light.
 
 K-Y Song, Herraez, M. Gonzalez-Herraez and L. Thévenaz

In: 17th International Conference on Optical Fibre Sensors, vol. 5855, 2005, p. 142-145, SPIE, 2005.


 2004

 2nd European Workshop on Optical Fibre Sensors, (EWOFS’04), Santander, Spain
 Best Paper Award
 Spatially resolved measurement of chromatic dispersion and Brillouin shift along single-mode optical fibres.
 
 M. Gonzalez Herraez and  L. Thévenaz

In: Second European Workshop on Optical Fibre Sensors, vol. 5502, 2004, p. 468-471, International Society for Optical Engineering, Bellingham, WA 98227-0010, United States, 2004.


2003
16th Conference on Optical Fiber Sensors, Nara, Japan
Best Paper Award
Correlation-based Brillouin sensing using an injection-locking technique.