Author details
James A. Piper
Also published under: J. A. Piper, James Piper, J. Piper, J. P. Piper, Jim Piper
Affiliation
Department of Physics and Astronom
and MQ Photonics Research Centre
Macquarie University, North Ryde, NSW, Australia
Biography
James A. Piper received the B.Sc. and Ph.D. degrees~in physics from the University of Otago, Dunedin, New Zealand, in 1968 and 1971, respectively.,He was a Postdoctoral Researcher in the field of gas lasers at Clarendon Laboratory, Oxford University, Oxford, U.K. He joined as a Faculty Member at Macquarie University, Sydney, Australia, and was appointed as the Chair in the Department of Physics in 1984.,His research has been concerned with copper vapor lasers, dye lasers, excimer lasers, all-solid-state lasers, including self-frequency-doubling lasers and intracavity crystalline Raman lasers, and applications in microfabrication and biomedicine. He is currently the Deputy Vice Chancellor (Research) at Macquaric University.,Dr. Piper is a Fe... Author's Published Works