Back to Faculty/Researchers

Prof. Mathias Kolle

Associate Professor of Mechanical Engineering

Primary DLC

Department of Mechanical Engineering

MIT Room: 3-162

(617) 324-7639

mkolle@mit.edu

View Feature

Areas of Interest and Expertise

Manufacture of Novel Photonic Structures
Optical Instrumentation and modeling
Biological Photonic Systems
Bio-Inspired Dynamic Photonic Materials
Nanophotonics
Photovoltaics
X-Ray Nanotomography
Plasmonic Materials

Research Summary

At MIT, Professor Mathias aims to continue his work on multilayer photonics coatings for elastic substrates. He has developed a means to coat fibers such that they reflect light in a very narrow wavelength band, the center wavelength of which varies with the state of strain of the underlying material.

Projects

September 1, 2021

Deshpande Center for Technological Innovation

Color-Changing Photonic Sheets

Principal Investigator Mathias Kolle

June 5, 2019

Department of Mechanical Engineering

Multifunctional Light-Diffusing Fibers for Simultaneous Light Management and Fluid Transport in Microalgae Bioreactors

Principal Investigator Mathias Kolle

June 2, 2016

Department of Mechanical Engineering

Reconfigurable, Emulsion-Based Micro Lenses

Principal Investigator Mathias Kolle

June 2, 2016

Department of Mechanical Engineering

Pixelated, Photonic Surfaces

Principal Investigator Mathias Kolle

June 2, 2016

Department of Mechanical Engineering

Morphogenesis and Engineering of Biological Photonic Materials

Principal Investigator Mathias Kolle

June 2, 2016

Department of Mechanical Engineering

Biomineralization of Functional Marine Materials

Principal Investigator Mathias Kolle

August 25, 2015

Microsystems Technology Laboratories

Microphotonics Center

QA/TEST Design and Manufacture of Bio-Inspired Light-Emitting Optical Micro-Cavities

Principal Investigators Mathias Kolle , Sanjay Sarma

Optical micro-cavities are structures confining light in a small volume by resonant circulation. They can be constructed from two reflective surfaces sandwiching a gain medium to create light-emitting devices and lasers. Show more...

The quality factor, representing the ratio between the number of round trips that a photon takes in the cavity and the cavity losses, determines the maximum attainable light amplification

March 5, 2015

Department of Mechanical Engineering

Color-Tunable, Stimuli-Responsive Photonic Fibers

Principal Investigator Mathias Kolle

November 12, 2014

Department of Mechanical Engineering

Laboratory for Biologically Inspired Photonic Engineering

Principal Investigator Mathias Kolle

Video

Finding Living Inspirations for Novel Optics

November 13, 2018MIT Faculty Feature Duration: 35:41

Mathias Kolle
Rockwell Career Development Professorship, Mechanical Engineering

Prof. Mathias Kolle

Primary DLC

Areas of Interest and Expertise

Research Summary

Recent Work

Color-Changing Photonic Sheets

Multifunctional Light-Diffusing Fibers for Simultaneous Light Management and Fluid Transport in Microalgae Bioreactors

Reconfigurable, Emulsion-Based Micro Lenses

Pixelated, Photonic Surfaces

Morphogenesis and Engineering of Biological Photonic Materials

Biomineralization of Functional Marine Materials

QA/TEST Design and Manufacture of Bio-Inspired Light-Emitting Optical Micro-Cavities

Color-Tunable, Stimuli-Responsive Photonic Fibers

Laboratory for Biologically Inspired Photonic Engineering

Finding Living Inspirations for Novel Optics

Related Faculty