Garrett Cole

Optica Fellows are selected based on several factors, including outstanding contributions to research, business, education, engineering and service to Optica and our community. Fellows are Optica members who have served with distinction in the advancement of optics and photonics. As Fellows can account for no more than 10 percent of the total membership, the election process is highly competitive. Candidates are recommended by the Fellow Members Committee and approved by the Awards Council and… Mehr zeigen

Optica Fellows are selected based on several factors, including outstanding contributions to research, business, education, engineering and service to Optica and our community. Fellows are Optica members who have served with distinction in the advancement of optics and photonics. As Fellows can account for no more than 10 percent of the total membership, the election process is highly competitive. Candidates are recommended by the Fellow Members Committee and approved by the Awards Council and Board of Directors. Weniger anzeigen

The Photonics100 celebrates the people who are pushing the photonics industry forward, whether as the inventors, manufacturers, or end users of technology.

Tiny mirrors, big waves... While ocean waves make ripples in water, gravitational waves make ripples in spacetime. Garrett Cole, the technology manager at Thorlabs Crystalline Solutions, works with a team that recently developed special micromechanical mirrors to aid in the measurement of these unique astronomical phenomena. Cole’s tiny mirrors, smaller than the diameter of a human hair, were used to directly observe the fluctuations of the quantum vacuum and in a related effort were used to… Mehr zeigen

Tiny mirrors, big waves... While ocean waves make ripples in water, gravitational waves make ripples in spacetime. Garrett Cole, the technology manager at Thorlabs Crystalline Solutions, works with a team that recently developed special micromechanical mirrors to aid in the measurement of these unique astronomical phenomena. Cole’s tiny mirrors, smaller than the diameter of a human hair, were used to directly observe the fluctuations of the quantum vacuum and in a related effort were used to “squeeze” laser light, giving the light specific properties that reduce quantum background noise, allowing for more precise measurement of subtle effects such as gravitational waves. Maybe next he can invent a mirror that can make us look good under fluorescent lights. Weniger anzeigen

Winner, Materials and Coatings category for xtal mir: ultralow-loss mid-IR optical coatings based on substrate-transferred single-crystal semiconductor multilayers

Second Prize: Garrett Cole and Markus Aspelmeyer, Crystalline Mirror Solutions, University of Vienna, Austria and USA, "Substrate-Transferred Crystalline Coatings – a New Paradigm in Laser-Based Precision Measurement and Instrumentation"

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As part of the UNESCO-sponsored International Year of Light, in June 2015 I was the recipient of the LIGHT2015 Young Photonics Entrepreneur Award of the European Optical Society.