J. Roy Taylor

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

James Roy Taylor (born 1949)^[1][2] is an English physicist who is professor of ultrafast physics and technology at Imperial College London.^[6][7][4]

Professor J. Roy Taylor FRS FREng
Taylor in 2017
Born	James Roy Taylor (1949-04-29) 29 April 1949 (age 75)[1][2] Carrickfergus, Northern Ireland[2]
Alma mater	Queen's University Belfast[3]
Awards	Young Medal and Prize (2007) Royal Society Rumford Medal (2012) IoP Michael Faraday Medal (2019) FRS (2017) FREng (2022)
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

Education

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.^[8] 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.^[8]

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.^[8] He contributed extensively to the development of high power supercontinuum or “white light” sources,^[10][11] which have been a scientific and commercial success.^[8][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^[8] 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.^[8]

He was elected a Fellow of the Royal Academy of Engineering (FREng) in 2022.^[14]

References

1. 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.)
2. Taylor, Roy (2017). "James Roy Taylor Curriculum Vitae" (PDF). imperial.ac.uk. Archived from the original (PDF) on 21 August 2017.
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.
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. "Roy Taylor: Professor of Ultrafast Physics and Technology, Faculty of Natural Sciences, Department of Physics". imperial.ac.uk.
7. J. Roy Taylor publications indexed by the Scopus bibliographic database. (subscription required)
8. 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)

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. Archived from the original on 2 July 2019. Retrieved 21 October 2019.
14. "Professor James Roy Taylor FREng FRS". raeng.org.uk. Retrieved 23 August 2023.