Roy Taylor

Roy graduated from the Queen’s University of Belfast with a 1st class honours in physics in 1971 and commenced a PhD under the supervision of Professor Dan Bradley. In 1973 he transferred to Imperial College and submitted his PhD thesis, “Studies of tunable picosecond laser pulses and nonlinear interactions” to the Queen’s University in 1974. From 1975 to 1976 he was a post-doctoral research assistant in the Institute of Physical Chemistry at the Technical University in Munich. He returned in 1977 to the Optics Section at Imperial and in 1986 he established the Femtosecond Optics Group, which he ran as a research assistant until 2002, when he appeared to be promoted to Professor of Ultrafast Physics and Technology, having by that stage solely supervised more than 35 successful PhD students. Roy’s interests are in the generation and application of ultrashort pulses to fundamental nonlinear processes, primarily optical fibre based currently, but with the objective of making temporally and spectrally versatile systems of commercial interest and diverse application. The group have an established reputation for extensive industrial interaction and Roy’s many contributions have been recognized by the Ernst Abbé Award of the Carl Zeiss Foundation, the Thomas Young Medal of the Institute of Physics and the Rumford Medal of the Royal Society. In 2017, Roy was elected to the Fellowship of the Royal Society and in 2022 he was elected a Fellow of the Royal Academy of Engineering

Education:

• 1967 - 1971 The Queen's University of Belfast, BSc 1st Class Hons Physics
• 1971 - 1973 The Queen's University of Belfast, start of PhD studies, transferring
• 1973 - 1974 Imperial College London PhD in Laser Physics

Awards

• Fellow of the Royal Academy of Engineering, Royal Academy of Engineering, 2022
• Michael Faraday Award and Medal, Institute of Physics, 2019
• IEEE Photonics Society Quantum Electronics Medal and Award, IEEE, 2018
• Oxburgh Medal, Institute of Measurement and Control, 2017
• Fellow of the Royal Society, The Royal Society, 2017
• Rumford Medal, The Royal Society, 2012
• Imperial College Research Excellence Award, Imperial College London, 2007
• Thomas Young Medal and Award, Institute of Physics, 2007
• Wolfson Research Merit Award, The Royal Society, 2006
• Ernst Abbe Award, Carl Zeiss Foundation, 1990

External Positions

• Member, Scientific Advisory Board, Max Planck Institute for the Science of Light, 2017
• Member, Frederick Ives Award Committee (OSA)

Membership of Professional Bodies

• Fellow, Institute of Physics, 2019
• Member, SPIE, 2005
• Member, IEEE, 1995
• Fellow, Optical Society of America

Selected Publications

Journals

Taylor JR, 2023, Early optical soliton research at Imperial College London, Optics Communications, Vol:536, ISSN:0030-4018

Ribenek VA, Korobko DA, Fotiadi AA, et al., 2022, Supermode noise mitigation and repetition rate control in harmonic mode-locked fiber laser implemented through the pulse train interaction with co-lased CW radiation, Optics Letters, Vol:47, ISSN:0146-9592, Pages:5236-5239

Chandran A, Battle RA, Murray RT, et al., 2021, Watt-level 743 nm source by second-harmonic generation of a cascaded phosphosilicate Raman fiber amplifier, Optics Express, Vol:29, ISSN:1094-4087, Pages:41467-41474

Fotiadi AA, Korobko DA, Zolotovskii IO, et al., 2021, Brillouin-like amplification in rare-earth-doped optical fibers, Optics Express, Vol:29, ISSN:1094-4087, Pages:40345-40359