Summary
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
Publications
Journals
Taylor JR, 2023, Early optical soliton research at Imperial College London, Optics Communications, Vol:536, ISSN:0030-4018
Taylor JR, 2023, Fiber Laser Driven Three-Micron Source Development Based on Difference Frequency Generation, Optoelectronics Instrumentation and Data Processing, Vol:59, ISSN:8756-6990, Pages:18-27
Battle RA, Chandran AM, Runcorn TH, et al., 2023, Mid-infrared difference-frequency generation directly pumped by a fiber four-wave mixing source, Optics Letters, Vol:48, ISSN:0146-9592, Pages:387-390
Ribenek VA, Korobko DA, Fotiadi AA, et al., 2022, Supermode noise mitigation and repetition rate control in a harmonic mode-locked fiber laser implemented through the pulse train interaction with co-lased CW radiation: publisher's note, Optics Letters, Vol:47, ISSN:0146-9592, Pages:5582-5582
Conference
Battle RA, Simon D, Xiang Y, et al., 2023, High resolution mass spectrometry imaging using 3 micron laser ablation, ISSN:1605-7422