J. Roy Taylor

Roy Taylor
FRS
Roy Taylor at the Royal Society admissions day in London, July 2017
Born James Roy Taylor
(1949-04-29) 29 April 1949[1][2]
Carrickfergus, Northern Ireland[2]
Alma mater Queen's University Belfast (BSc, PhD)[3]
Awards Young Medal and Prize (2007)
Rumford Medal (2012)
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] FRS[6] is Professor of Ultrafast Physics and Technology at Imperial College London.[7][8][4]

Education

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.[5][3]

Research and career

Taylor is widely acknowledged for his influential basic research on and development of diverse lasers systems and their application.[6] 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.[6]

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.[6] He contributed extensively to the development of high power supercontinuum or “white light” sources,[10][11] which have been a scientific and commercial success.[6][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 and the Rumford Medal from the Royal Society in 2012.[6] He was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society (FRS) in 2017.[6]

References

  1. 1 2 Anon (2017). Taylor, Prof. (James) Roy. ukwhoswho.com. Who's Who (online Oxford University Press ed.). A & C Black, an imprint of Bloomsbury Publishing plc. doi:10.1093/ww/9780199540884.001.0001/ww-9780199540884-e-289296. (subscription 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 2017-08-21.
  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.
  4. 1 2 J. Roy Taylor publications indexed by Google Scholar Edit this at Wikidata
  5. 1 2 Taylor, J. Roy (2017). "Daniel Joseph Bradley. 18 January 1928 — 7 February 2010". Biographical Memoirs of Fellows of the Royal Society. doi:10.1098/rsbm.2017.0012. ISSN 0080-4606.
  6. 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 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 2016-11-11. Retrieved 2016-03-09.
  7. ↑ "Roy Taylor: Professor of Ultrafast Physics and Technology, Faculty of Natural Sciences, Department of Physics". imperial.ac.uk.
  8. ↑ J. Roy Taylor publications indexed by the Scopus bibliographic database. (subscription required)
  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. Bibcode:1997OptL...22..298C. doi:10.1364/OL.22.000298. ISSN 0146-9592. (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)


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