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Jefferson Dixon

Jefferson Dixon
Ph.D. Candidate
Mechanical Engineering

M.S. Mechanical Engineering, Stanford University (2019)
B.S. Mechanical Engineering, Georgia Institute of Technology (2017)

Research Interests

My goal is to enable optical computing at the nanoscale, and resonant (high-Q) nanophotonics provide the strong light-matter interactions to make this possible. I am interested in understanding how the symmetry of materials influences interactions with light and how we can design new materials to control these interactions. Specifically, I design dielectric (e.g. silicon, diamond) metasurfaces that strongly confine light and enhance nonlinear optical effects for applications including nanoscale lasing, all-optical isolation, and quantum emission.

Publications

J. Dixon, M. Lawrence, D. Barton, J. Dionne, “Self-isolated Raman lasing with a chiral dielectric metasurface,” Physical Review Letters (2021)