Nathan Dawson

Associate Professor
Nathan Dawson

Phone 863-874-8618

Location Main Campus

Office BARC-2267

Directory Physics

Nathan Dawson joined IM体育官网 Poly鈥檚 Department of Engineering Physics as an associate professor of engineering and physics in 2023. Prior to this, he was an associate professor of physics and engineering at Hawaii Pacific University and an assistant professor of physics at the University of the Bahamas.

Dawson enjoys teaching at all levels of undergraduate education. He has worked on many interdisciplinary research projects, including recent experimental studies involving biolasers, photomechanical materials, and self-healing optical materials.

  • Senior member of SPIE
  • Ph.D. in Physics, Washington State University, 2010
  • B.S. in Physics, University of Idaho, 2004
  • Nonlinear optics
  • Opto-electronics
  • Microcavity lasers
  • Photomechanics
  • Organic optical materials
  • Member, SPIE
  • Member, APS
  • Nathan J. Dawson, Yunli Lu, Zoe Lowther, Jacob Abell, Nicholas D. Christianson, Aaron Weiser, and Gioia Aquino (2023), 鈥淟ow-cost automated spin coater and thermal annealer for additive prototyping of multilayer Bragg reflectors,鈥 Am. J. Phys., 91, 48-55.
  • Frank Sun, Rocco T. Shasho, Michael Crescimanno, and Nathan J. Dawson (2022), 鈥淎ll-optical method of determining laser power from the photomechanical effect,鈥 Appl. Sci., 12, 10708.
  • Nathan J. Dawson and Valerie Lynch-Holm (2022), 鈥淩educed ASE threshold from aperiodic photonic structures in rhodamine B-doped king salmon (Oncorhynchus tshawytscha) iridophores,鈥 J. Lumin., 241, 118474.
  • Moussa Kounta and Nathan J. Dawson (2021), 鈥淟inear Quadratic Gaussian Homing for Markov Processes with Regime Switching and Applications to Controlled Population Growth/Decay,鈥 Methodol. Comput. Appl. Probab., 23, 1155-1172.
  • Mark G. Kuzyk and Nathan J. Dawson (2020), 鈥淧hotomechanical materials and applications: a tutorial,鈥 Adv. Opt. Photon., 12, 847-1011.
  • Yunli Lu, Zoe Lowther, Nicholas D. Christianson, Zhenpeng Li, Eric Baer, Mark G. Kuzyk, and Nathan J. Dawson (2020), 鈥淒emonstration of a self-healing all-polymer distributed Bragg reflector laser,鈥 Appl. Phys. Lett., 116, 103301.
  • Nathan J. Dawson and Moussa Kounta (2019), 鈥淗omotopy analysis method applied to second-order frequency mixing in nonlinear optical dielectric media,鈥 J. Nonlin. Opt. Phys. Mater., 28, 1950033.
  • Nicholas D. Christianson, Yunli Lu, and Nathan J. Dawson (2019), 鈥淩ecovery of photodegraded rhodamine 6g in ester-containing polymer matrices,鈥 Photochem. Photobiol. Sci., 18, 2865-2874.
  • Nathan J. Dawson, Onassis Nottage, and Moussa Kounta (2018), 鈥淭he second hyperpolarizability of systems described by the space-fractional Schrodinger equation,鈥 Phys. Lett. A, 382, 55-59.
  • Najee Stubbs, Mauricio Bridgewater, Michaela Stubbs, Amin Kabir, Michael Crescimanno, Mark G. Kuzyk, and Nathan J. Dawson (2018), 鈥淧olylactic acid promotes healing of photodegraded disperse orange 11 molecules,鈥 Opt. Mater., 76, 11-15.

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