J. Roy Taylor | |
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.jpg) Taylor in 2017 | |
| Born | James Roy Taylor (1949-04-29)29 April 1949 (age 75)[4][2] |
| Alma mater | Queen's University Belfast[5] |
| Awards | Young Medal and Prize (2007) Royal SocietyRumford 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 |
James Roy Taylor (born 1949)[4][2] is an English physicist who isprofessor of ultrafast physics and technology atImperial College London.[6][7][1]
Taylor was educated atQueen's University Belfast, where he was awarded aBachelor of Science degree inphysics in 1971[2] followed by aPhD inlaser physics in 1974 for research supervised byDaniel Joseph Bradley.[3][5]
Taylor is widely acknowledged for his influential basic research on and development of diverselaser systems and their application.[8] He has contributed extensively to advances inpicosecond andfemtoseconddye laser technology, compactdiode-laser andfibre-laser-pumped vibronic lasers and their wide-ranging application to fundamental studies, such as time resolved photophysics ofresonant energy transfer and relaxation pathways of biological probes andorganic field-effect transistors.[8]
Taylor is particularly noted for his fundamental studies of ultrafastnonlinear optics in fibres, with emphasis onsolitons,[9] their amplification, the role of noise and self-effects, such asRaman 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 powersupercontinuum or “white light” sources,[10][11] which have been a scientific and commercial success.[8][12]
Taylor's work has been recognized by theErnst Abbe Award of theCarl Zeiss Foundation in 1990,[2] theYoung Medal and Prize of theInstitute of Physics (IOP) in 2007, theRumford Medal from theRoyal Society in 2012[8] and theFaraday Medal and Prize of theInstitute of Physics in 2019.[13]
He was elected aFellow of the Royal Society (FRS) in 2017.[8]
He was elected a Fellow of the Royal Academy of Engineering (FREng) in 2022.[14]
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