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Mahmoud Jalali Mehrabad

Research Scientist, MIT

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Research Areas: 

  • Topological physics with light
  • Hybrid quantum systems

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  • a graphic showing a chip with silver grooves guiding energy to a two-dimensional material

    Researchers Identify Groovy Way to Beat Diffraction Limit

    October 3, 2025

    There's a limit to how tightly a lens can focus a laser beam. For researchers studying the interactions between light and matter, this makes experiments more challenging. A new chip made from a thin, grooved sheet of silver defies this limit, delivering the energy of 800-nanometer laser light to a sample in peaks and valleys just a few dozen nanometers apart.

  • a schematic illustration of light carrying orbital angular momentum interacting with electrons in a sample of graphene

    Twisted Light Gives Electrons a Spinning Kick

    November 26, 2024

    Scientists seeking better methods for controlling the quantum interactions between light and matter demonstrated a novel way to use light to give electrons a spinning kick. In the journal Nature Photonics, they reported the results of an experiment, showing that a light beam can reliably transfer orbital angular momentum to itinerant electrons in graphene.

  • close up of a grid of rings with light swirling inside and spikes jutting out representing the elements of a frequency comb

    New Photonic Chip Spawns Nested Topological Frequency Comb

    June 20, 2024

    In new work, researchers at JQI have combined two lines of research into a new method for generating frequency combs.