Gary Carver

Gary Carver
Occupation	Research Assistant Professor
Education	Worcester Polytechnic Institute (BS) University of Arizona (PhD)

Gary Carver is a physicist specializing in optics who serves as a Research Assistant Professor in the Department of Biochemistry and Physics at the University of Vermont. His work spans thin-film coatings, fiber-optic sensing, and photoluminescence imaging.

Education

Carver received a Bachelor of Science degree in Physics from Worcester Polytechnic Institute, studying there from 1970 to 1974. He went on to earn a PhD in Optical Sciences from the University of Arizona, completing his doctoral studies between 1974 and 1980.

Career

Carver spent 24 years at Bell Labs, part of Alcatel-Lucent, from 1980 to 2004, working as a Member of Technical Staff and later Distinguished Member of Technical Staff in optical test. From 2004 to 2008 he was a Principal Scientist in research and development at Princeton Lightwave in the United States. He then served as Director of Research and Development at Omega Optical, Inc. from 2008 to 2022. Since 2022, Carver has held the position of Research Assistant Professor in the Department of Biochemistry and Physics at the University of Vermont.

Research

According to Semantic Scholar, Carver has authored or co-authored 66 papers with a combined total of 426 citations and an h-index of 12. His most cited work, "In-fiber spectrometer using tilted fiber gratings," published in 2003 in IEEE Photonics Technology Letters, has been cited 53 times. Earlier in his career, Carver contributed several studies on chemically vapor deposited molybdenum thin films for photothermal solar converters, including work on their infrared reflectance and solar absorptance properties. He also published on photoluminescence imaging techniques for semiconductor materials, including porous silicon and semi-insulating GaAs and InP.

Carver's research has received funding from the National Science Foundation and the National Institutes of Health. NSF records show a 1989 award of $17,347 for a project titled "Computerization of Surveying Methods and Data Interpretation for Geology Courses with Field Laboratories," administered through Cal Poly Humboldt Sponsored Programs Foundation. NIH records document three funded projects titled "Rapid In-vivo Cancer Detection via Multispectral Confocal Cellular Imaging," awarded through Omega Optical Inc., totaling $849,900 across amounts of $323,839, $426,094, and $99,967.

Selected publications

• "In-fiber spectrometer using tilted fiber gratings" (2003), IEEE Photonics Technology Letters
• "CVD molybdenum thin films in photothermal solar converters" (1979)
• "Highly reflecting molybdenum thin films having significant solar absorptance" (1980)
• "Chemically vapor deposited molybdenum films of high infrared reflectance" (1979)
• "Photoluminescence imaging of porous silicon using a confocal scanning laser macroscope/microscope" (1995)
• "The influence of surface texture on the solar absorptance of black molybdenum" (1982)
• "Chemical-vapor-deposited molybdenum films of high infrared reflectance" (1979)
• "Passivating CVD Molybdenum Films Against Infrared Reflection Losses Caused by Oxidation" (1978)
• "Scanned photoluminescence with high spatial resolution in semi-insulating GaAs and InP: aspects of surface passivation and photodegradation" (1992)
• "Influence of the longitudinal mode field in grating scattering from weakly guided optical fiber waveguides" (2004), Optics Letters

External links

• Gary Carver on ORCID