His doctoral advisor was Prof.Lene Hau for his thesis entitled "Ultra-slow, stopped, and compressed light in Bose–Einstein condensates" [1] He worked on a number of papers with Hau and Cyrus Behroozi, being amongst the first group to stop light completely.
He undertook postdoctoral work at NIST–Gaithersburg with Dr. Charles Clark, prior to becoming a staff physicist at the Naval Research Lab in Washington.
QuIP conducts ongoing research, and has facilities in the following areas: In 2011, Dutton and colleagues achieved a breakthrough, recorded in "Direct Observation of Coherent Population Trapping in a Superconducting Artificial Atom".
Normally light (photons) is absorbed by superconductors, but Dutton's team discovered that applying a second field at a different frequency can be used to prevent this absorption, making the artificial atom effectively transparent.
The United States Department of Defense has granted further research monies to this project "to create tools and methods that integrate all aspects of the quantum computer".