• Source: James A. Piper

      • James A. (Jim) Piper (1 January 1947 – 20 July 2023) was a New Zealand/Australian physicist, Deputy Vice-Chancellor (Research) and Professor of Physics at Macquarie University.
      Piper studied physics at the University of Otago, New Zealand, and received a B.Sc. (Hons) in 1968. He completed a Ph.D. in atomic physics, also at Otago, in 1971. 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.
      Piper's primary research interests were in solid-state lasers. In particular, 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.


      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
      2014 Member of the Order of Australia


      See also


      Multiple-prism dispersion theory
      Multiple-prism grating laser oscillators


      References




      External links


      Piper's page at Macquarie

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