(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]
Roy Taylor | |
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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 |
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]
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]
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]
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