J. Roy Taylor

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

For other people named Roy Taylor, see Roy Taylor (disambiguation).
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 materQueen's University Belfast (BSc, PhD)[3]
AwardsYoung Medal and Prize (2007)
Royal Society Rumford Medal (2012)
IoP Michael Faraday Medal (2019)
FRS (2017)
Scientific career
FieldsPhotonics[4]
InstitutionsImperial College London
Technical University of Munich[2]
ThesisStudies of Tunable Picosecond Laser Pulses and Nonlinear Interactions (1974)
Doctoral advisorDaniel Joseph Bradley[5]
Websiteimperial.ac.uk/people/jr.taylor

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, the Rumford Medal from the Royal Society in 2012[6] and the Faraday Medal and Prize of the Institute of Physics in 2019. [13]

He was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society (FRS) in 2017.[6]

References
  1. Anon (2017). "Taylor, Prof. (James) Roy". Who's Who. ukwhoswho.com (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 or UK public library membership required) (subscription required)
  2. Taylor, Roy (2017). "James Roy Taylor Curriculum Vitae" (PDF). imperial.ac.uk. Archived from the original (PDF) on 2017-08-21.
  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.
  4. J. Roy Taylor publications indexed by Google Scholar
  5. 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.
  6. 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.CS1 maint: bot: original URL status unknown (link)
  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): 298–300. Bibcode:1997OptL...22..298C. doi:10.1364/OL.22.000298. ISSN 0146-9592. PMID 18183181. (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)
  13. "2019 Michael Faraday Medal and Prize". Institute of Physics. Retrieved 21 October 2019.


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