J. Roy Taylor

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J. Roy Taylor
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Taylor in 2017
Born
James Roy Taylor

(1949-04-29) 29 April 1949 (age 75) [1] [2]
Alma mater Queen's University Belfast [3]
Awards Young Medal and Prize (2007)
Royal Society Rumford Medal (2012)
IoP Michael Faraday Medal (2019)
FRS (2017)
FREng (2022)
Scientific career
Fields Photonics [4]
Institutions Imperial College London
Technical University of Munich [2]
Thesis Studies of Tunable Picosecond Laser Pulses and Nonlinear Interactions  (1974)
Doctoral advisor Daniel Joseph Bradley [5]
Website imperial.ac.uk/people/jr.taylor

James Roy Taylor (born 1949) [1] [2] is an English physicist who is professor of ultrafast physics and technology at Imperial College London. [6] [7] [4]

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Education

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. [5] [3]

Research and career

Taylor is widely acknowledged for his influential basic research on and development of diverse laser 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

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

  1. 1 2 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.)
  2. 1 2 3 4 5 6 Taylor, Roy (2017). "James Roy Taylor Curriculum Vitae" (PDF). imperial.ac.uk. Archived from the original (PDF) on 21 August 2017.
  3. 1 2 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.
  4. 1 2 J. Roy Taylor publications indexed by Google Scholar OOjs UI icon edit-ltr-progressive.svg
  5. 1 2 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. Closed Access logo transparent.svg
  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. 1 2 3 4 5 6 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) Closed Access logo transparent.svg
  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) Closed Access logo transparent.svg
  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.