James A. Piper
James A. (Jim) Piper (born c 1949) is a New Zealand/Australian physicist, Deputy Vice-Chancellor (Research) and Professor of Physics at Macquarie University.[1]
Piper studied at University of Otago, New Zealand, B.Sc. (Hons), 1968,[1] and completed a Ph.D. there in 1971, in Atomic Physics.[2] His post doctoral research was on gas lasers, with Colin Webb at Oxford.
Piper has a strong international reputation for Gas laser research in Continuous wave metal ion, cyclic pulsed metal vapour lasers and metal ion recombination lasers. He is also co-author, with Frank Duarte, of a number of seminal papers on laser oscillator physics.[3][4]
Piper's research in solid-state lasers has focussed mainly on Diode-pumped solid-state lasers and related thermal engineering, mid-infrared solid state laser materials, solid state Raman lasers, and novel self-frequency-doubling laser materials.[1]
Awards
- 1982 Pawsey Medal, Australian Academy of Science
- 1984 Walter Boas Medal, Australian Institute of Physics
- 1994 Fellow of the Optical Society of America
- 1997 AOS Medal, Australian Optical Society
- 2004 Carnegie Centenary Professorship, Carnegie Trust for the Universities of Scotland
- 2006 Honorary Doctorate of Science, Heriot-Watt University, Scotland[1]
See also
- Multiple-prism dispersion theory
- Multiple-prism grating laser oscillators
References
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 1.3 "James Piper". Macquarie University, Sydney Australia. Retrieved 16 May 2012.
- ↑ "Deputy Vice-Chancellor (Research), Professor Jim Piper". Macquarie University, Sydney Australia. Retrieved 16 May 2012.
- ↑ F. J. Duarte and J. A. Piper, Dispersion theory of multiple-prism beam expanders for pulsed dye lasers, Opt. Commun. 43, 303–307 (1982).
- ↑ F. J. Duarte and J. A. Piper, Narrow linewidth high prf copper laser-pumped dye-laser oscillators, Appl. Opt. 23, 1391-1394 (1984)