Fields Photonics Field Photonics | Died 19 June 2016 | |
Born 2 October 1942
England ( 1942-10-02 ) Institutions Australian National University Known for Fibre optics,
Optical Waveguide Theory Institution Australian National University | ||
John Love (2 October 1942 – 19 June 2016) was a pioneer in the field of fibre optics, who co-authoring the widely used textbook Optical Waveguide Theory and was Emeritus Professor of guided wave photonics at Australian National University (ANU).
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Biography
Born in England, Love received a masters and PhD in applied mathematics from the University of Cambridge and University of Oxford. He was a postdoc in San Diego and Toronto, before moving to Australia in 1973, where he became a postdoc fellow in ANU's applied mathematics department. He was a Life Member of the Australian Optical Society (AOS) and in 2009 received the most prestigious award of the AOS, the Beattie Steel medal.
As an Emeritus Professor at ANU he helped create the Wanda Henry Scholarship in Photonics.
In 2015 Love cofounded the Australian company Modular Photonics.