Nathan Dawson joined Florida Poly’s 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), “Low-cost automated spin coater and thermal annealer
for additive prototyping of multilayer Bragg reflectors,” Am. J. Phys., 91, 48-55.
Frank Sun, Rocco T. Shasho, Michael Crescimanno, and Nathan J. Dawson (2022), “All-optical
method of determining laser power from the photomechanical effect,” Appl. Sci., 12, 10708.
Nathan J. Dawson and Valerie Lynch-Holm (2022), “Reduced ASE threshold from aperiodic
photonic structures in rhodamine B-doped king salmon (Oncorhynchus tshawytscha) iridophores,” J. Lumin., 241, 118474.
Moussa Kounta and Nathan J. Dawson (2021), “Linear Quadratic Gaussian Homing for Markov
Processes with Regime Switching and Applications to Controlled Population Growth/Decay,”
Methodol. Comput. Appl. Probab., 23, 1155-1172.
Mark G. Kuzyk and Nathan J. Dawson (2020), “Photomechanical materials and applications:
a tutorial,” 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), “Demonstration of a self-healing all-polymer distributed
Bragg reflector laser,” Appl. Phys. Lett., 116, 103301.
Nathan J. Dawson and Moussa Kounta (2019), “Homotopy analysis method applied to second-order
frequency mixing in nonlinear optical dielectric media,” J. Nonlin. Opt. Phys. Mater.,
28, 1950033.
Nicholas D. Christianson, Yunli Lu, and Nathan J. Dawson (2019), “Recovery of photodegraded
rhodamine 6g in ester-containing polymer matrices,” Photochem. Photobiol. Sci., 18, 2865-2874.
Nathan J. Dawson, Onassis Nottage, and Moussa Kounta (2018), “The second hyperpolarizability
of systems described by the space-fractional Schrodinger equation,” Phys. Lett. A,
382, 55-59.
Najee Stubbs, Mauricio Bridgewater, Michaela Stubbs, Amin Kabir, Michael Crescimanno,
Mark G. Kuzyk, and Nathan J. Dawson (2018), “Polylactic acid promotes healing of photodegraded
disperse orange 11 molecules,” Opt. Mater., 76, 11-15.
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