James A. Piper

James A. Piper
Born c. 1949
New Zealand
Nationality Australian
Fields Physics
Lasers
Institutions University of Oxford
Macquarie University
Alma mater University of Otago
Doctoral students F. J. Duarte
Larry R. Marshall
Known for Gas lasers
Dye lasers
Tunable lasers
Diode-pumped solid-state lasers
Notable awards Pawsey Medal (1982)
Walter Boas Medal (1984)


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 physics at the University of Otago, New Zealand, and received a B.Sc. (Hons) in 1968.[1] He completed a Ph.D. in atomic physics, also at Otago, in 1971.[2] His post-doctoral research was on metal-vapour lasers, with Colin Webb at Oxford.

Laser research in Australia

Following his arrival to Macquarie University in the late 1970s, from Oxford, Piper established one of the first laser research centres in Australia. Initially he directed his research toward gas lasers, continuous wave metal ion lasers, cyclic pulsed metal vapour lasers, and metal ion recombination lasers. He also added a laser development program on high-power tunable dye lasers for various applications including atomic vapor laser isotope separation. In this area of research he is co-author, with Frank Duarte, of a number of papers on tunable 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

See also

References

  1. 1 2 3 4 "James Piper". Macquarie University, Sydney Australia. Retrieved 16 May 2012.
  2. "Deputy Vice-Chancellor (Research), Professor Jim Piper". Macquarie University, Sydney Australia. Retrieved 16 May 2012.
  3. F. J. Duarte and J. A. Piper, Dispersion theory of multiple-prism beam expanders for pulsed dye lasers, Opt. Commun. 43, 303–307 (1982).
  4. F. J. Duarte and J. A. Piper, Narrow linewidth high prf copper laser-pumped dye-laser oscillators, Appl. Opt. 23, 1391-1394 (1984)

External links

Piper's page at Macquarie

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