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J. Roy Taylor

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James Roy Taylor (born 1949)[4][2] is an English physicist who is Professor of Ultrafast Physics and Technology at Imperial College London.[6][7][1]

Professor
J. Roy Taylor
FRS FREng
Taylor in 2017
Born
James Roy Taylor

(1949-04-29) 29 April 1949 (age 75)[4][2]
Carrickfergus, Northern Ireland[2]
Alma materQueen's University Belfast[5]
AwardsYoung Medal and Prize (2007)
Royal Society Rumford Medal (2012)
IoP Michael Faraday Medal (2019)
FRS (2017)
FREng (2022)
Scientific career
FieldsPhotonics[1]
InstitutionsImperial College London
Technical University of Munich[2]
ThesisStudies of Tunable Picosecond Laser Pulses and Nonlinear Interactions (1974)
Doctoral advisorDaniel Joseph Bradley[3]
Websiteimperial.ac.uk/people/jr.taylor

Education

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Taylor was educated at Queen's University Belfast where he was awarded a Bachelor of Science degree in Physics in 1971[2] followed by a PhD in laser physics in 1974 for research supervised by Daniel Joseph Bradley.[3][5]

Research and career

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Taylor is widely acknowledged for his influential basic research on and development of diverse lasers systems and their application.[8] He has contributed extensively to advances in picosecond and femtosecond dye laser technology, compact diode-laser and fibre-laser-pumped vibronic lasers and their wide-ranging application to fundamental studies, such as time resolved photophysics of resonant energy transfer and relaxation pathways of biological probes and organic field-effect transistors.[8]

Taylor is particularly noted for his fundamental studies of ultrafast nonlinear optics in fibres, with emphasis on solitons,[9] their amplification, the role of noise and self-effects, such as Raman gain. Through his integration of seeded, high-power fibre amplifiers and passive fibre he has demonstrated far-reaching versatility in pulse duration, repetition rate and spectral coverage.[8] He contributed extensively to the development of high power supercontinuum or “white light” sources,[10][11] which have been a scientific and commercial success.[8][12]

Awards and honours

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Taylor's work has been recognized by the Ernst Abbe Award of the Carl Zeiss Foundation in 1990,[2] the Young Medal and Prize of the Institute of Physics (IOP) in 2007, the Rumford Medal from the Royal Society in 2012[8] and the Faraday Medal and Prize of the Institute of Physics in 2019.[13]

He was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society (FRS) in 2017.[8]

He was elected a Fellow of the Royal Academy of Engineering (FREng) in 2022.[14]

References

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  1. ^ a b J. Roy Taylor publications indexed by Google Scholar  
  2. ^ a b c d e f Taylor, Roy (2017). "James Roy Taylor Curriculum Vitae" (PDF). imperial.ac.uk. Archived from the original (PDF) on 21 August 2017.
  3. ^ a b Taylor, J. Roy (2017). "Daniel Joseph Bradley. 18 January 1928 — 7 February 2010". Biographical Memoirs of Fellows of the Royal Society. 63: 23–54. doi:10.1098/rsbm.2017.0012. ISSN 0080-4606.  
  4. ^ a b Anon (2017). "Taylor, Prof. (James) Roy". Who's Who (online Oxford University Press ed.). Oxford: A & C Black. doi:10.1093/ww/9780199540884.013.U289296. (Subscription or UK public library membership required.)
  5. ^ a b Taylor, James Roy (1974). Studies of Tunable Picosecond Laser Pulses and Non-Linear Interactions. ethos.bl.uk (PhD thesis). Queen's University Belfast. OCLC 500576854. EThOS uk.bl.ethos.474693. Archived from the original on 15 September 2019. Retrieved 22 August 2017.
  6. ^ "Roy Taylor: Professor of Ultrafast Physics and Technology, Faculty of Natural Sciences, Department of Physics". imperial.ac.uk.
  7. ^ J. Roy Taylor publications indexed by the Scopus bibliographic database. (subscription required)
  8. ^ a b c d e f Anon (2017). "Professor Roy Taylor FRS". royalsociety.org. London: Royal Society. One or more of the preceding sentences incorporates text from the royalsociety.org website where:

    “All text published under the heading 'Biography' on Fellow profile pages is available under Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License.” --"Royal Society Terms, conditions and policies". Archived from the original on 11 November 2016. Retrieved 9 March 2016.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: bot: original URL status unknown (link)
  9. ^ Taylo, James Roy (1992). Optical solitons : theory and experiment. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. ISBN 9780521405485. OCLC 23975147.
  10. ^ Chernikov, S. V.; Zhu, Y.; Taylor, J. R.; Gapontsev, V. P. (1997). "Supercontinuum self-Q-switched ytterbium fiber laser". Optics Letters. 22 (5): 298–300. Bibcode:1997OptL...22..298C. doi:10.1364/OL.22.000298. ISSN 0146-9592. PMID 18183181. (subscription required)  
  11. ^ Dudley, J. M.; Taylor, James Roy (2010). Supercontinuum generation in optical fibers. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. doi:10.1017/cbo9780511750465. ISBN 9780521514804. OCLC 456838616.
  12. ^ Dudley, John M.; Taylor, J. Roy (2009). "Ten years of nonlinear optics in photonic crystal fibre". Nature Photonics. 3 (2): 85–90. Bibcode:2009NaPho...3...85D. doi:10.1038/nphoton.2008.285. ISSN 1749-4885. (subscription required)  
  13. ^ "2019 Michael Faraday Medal and Prize". Institute of Physics. Archived from the original on 2 July 2019. Retrieved 21 October 2019.
  14. ^ "Professor James Roy Taylor FREng FRS". raeng.org.uk. Retrieved 23 August 2023.
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