J._Roy_Taylor

J. Roy Taylor

J. Roy Taylor

English professor of Physics (born 1949)

For other people named Roy Taylor, see Roy Taylor (disambiguation).

(James) Roy Taylor (born 1949)[1][2]FREng[6] FRS[7] is Professor of Ultrafast Physics and Technology at Imperial College London.[8][9][4]

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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.[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

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

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    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.)
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    Taylor, Roy (2017). "James Roy Taylor Curriculum Vitae" (PDF). imperial.ac.uk. Archived from the original (PDF) on 21 August 2017.
  3. [3]
    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.
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    J. Roy Taylor publications indexed by Google Scholar Edit this at Wikidata
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    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 icon
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    "Professor James Roy Taylor FREng FRS". raeng.org.uk. Retrieved 23 August 2023.
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    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)
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    "Roy Taylor: Professor of Ultrafast Physics and Technology, Faculty of Natural Sciences, Department of Physics". imperial.ac.uk.
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    J. Roy Taylor publications indexed by the Scopus bibliographic database. (subscription required)
  10. [10]
    Taylo, James Roy (1992). Optical solitons : theory and experiment. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. ISBN 9780521405485. OCLC 23975147.
  11. [11]
    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 icon
  12. [12]
    Dudley, J. M.; Taylor, James Roy (2010). Supercontinuum generation in optical fibers. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. doi:10.1017/cbo9780511750465. ISBN 9780521514804. OCLC 456838616.
  13. [13]
    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 icon
  14. [14]
    "2019 Michael Faraday Medal and Prize". Institute of Physics. Archived from the original on 2 July 2019. Retrieved 21 October 2019.
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