J. Roy Taylor
(James) Roy Taylor (born 1949)[4][2]FREng[6] FRS[7] is Professor of Ultrafast Physics and Technology at Imperial College London.[8][9][1]
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Roy Taylor at the Royal Society admissions day in London, July 2017 | |
| Born | James Roy Taylor 29 April 1949[4][2] |
| Alma mater | Queen's University Belfast (BSc, PhD)[5] |
| Awards | Young Medal and Prize (2007) Royal Society Rumford Medal (2012) IoP Michael Faraday Medal (2019) FRS (2017) FREng (2022) |
| Scientific career | |
| Fields | Photonics[1] |
| 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[3] |
| Website | imperial |
Education edit
Larne Grammar School. 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 edit
Taylor is widely acknowledged for his influential basic research on and development of diverse lasers systems and their application.[7] 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.[7]
Taylor is particularly noted for his fundamental studies of ultrafast nonlinear optics in fibres, with emphasis on solitons,[10] 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.[7] He contributed extensively to the development of high power supercontinuum or “white light” sources,[11][12] which have been a scientific and commercial success.[7][13]
Awards and honours edit
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[7] and the Faraday Medal and Prize of the Institute of Physics in 2019.[14]
He was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society (FRS) in 2017.[7]
He was elected a Fellow of the Royal Academy of Engineering (FREng) in 2022.[6]
References edit
- ^ a b J. Roy Taylor publications indexed by Google Scholar
- ^ a b c d e f Taylor, Roy (2017). (PDF). imperial.ac.uk. Archived from the original (PDF) on 21 August 2017.
- ^ 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.
- ^ 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.)
- ^ a b Taylor, James Roy (1974). . 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.
- ^ a b "Professor James Roy Taylor FREng FRS". raeng.org.uk. Retrieved 23 August 2023.
- ^ a b c d e f g 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.” --. Archived from the original on 11 November 2016. Retrieved 9 March 2016.
{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: bot: original URL status unknown (link) - ^ "Roy Taylor: Professor of Ultrafast Physics and Technology, Faculty of Natural Sciences, Department of Physics". imperial.ac.uk.
- ^ J. Roy Taylor publications indexed by the Scopus bibliographic database. (subscription required)
- ^ Taylo, James Roy (1992). Optical solitons : theory and experiment. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. ISBN 9780521405485. OCLC 23975147.
- ^ 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)
- ^ Dudley, J. M.; Taylor, James Roy (2010). Supercontinuum generation in optical fibers. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. doi:10.1017/cbo9780511750465. ISBN 9780521514804. OCLC 456838616.
- ^ 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)
- ^ . Institute of Physics. Archived from the original on 2 July 2019. Retrieved 21 October 2019.