Dr. Ben Dixon

Senior Staff Member: Optical and Quantum Communications Technology Group

MIT Lincoln Laboratory

Dr. P. Benjamin Dixon is a senior staff member in the Optical and Quantum Communications group at MIT Lincoln Laboratory. He has overseen the development of several key quantum networking technologies including high-rate entanglement sources, scalable photonic quantum memory devices, and high-fidelity quantum frequency-conversion systems, as well as the development of the collaborative Boston-area quantum network testbed which connects MIT Lincoln Laboratory to several Boston area universities and organizations. Dr. Dixon has 52 peer-reviewed journal publications and conference papers, and has won three R&D 100 awards. Dr. Dixon received his B.A. in Mechanical Engineering from the University of Florida in 2005, his Ph.D. in Physics from the University of Rochester in 2012, and completed a postdoctoral appointment at MIT in the Electrical Engineering and Computer Science department in 2014.

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