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{{Short description|British physicist (born 1964)}}
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{{Infobox scientist
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| birth_date = 17 June 1964
| birth_date = {{birth-date|17 June 1964}}
| birth_place = [[Lusaka]]
| birth_place = [[Lusaka]], Zambia
| nationality = British
| citizenship = [[United Kingdom]]
| death_date =
| nationality = [[United Kingdom]]
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| field = [[Physics]], [[photonics]]
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| residence = [[United Kingdom]], [[U.K.]]
| field = [[Physics]], [[Photonics]]
| work_institution = [[University of Bath]]
| work_institution = [[University of Bath]]
| alma_mater = [[University of Cape Town]]
| alma_mater = [[University of Cape Town]]
| thesis_title = Whispering gallery mode microlaser in a capillary fibre
| thesis_title = Whispering gallery mode microlaser in a capillary fibre
| thesis_year = 1993
| thesis_year = 1993
| doctoral_advisor = G N Robertson, H S T Driver
| doctoral_advisor = G N Robertson, H S T Driver
|known_for = [[Photonic-crystal fiber]]<br>[[Optical Fibers]]
| known_for = [[Photonic-crystal fiber]]<br />[[Optical Fibers]]
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'''Jonathan C. Knight''', {{post-nominals|country=GBR|size=100%|sep=,|FRS}} (born 1964, in [[Lusaka]]) is a British physicist. He is the Pro Vice-Chancellor (Research) for the [[University of Bath]]<ref>{{cite web|last1=Knight|first1=Jonathan|title=Leadership profile|url=https://www.bath.ac.uk/profiles/pro-vice-chancellor-research-jonathan-knight/|website=24 September 2018|publisher=[[University of Bath]]}}</ref> where he has been Professor in the Department of Physics since 2000, and served as Head of Department.<ref>{{cite web|last1=Harris|first1=Margaret |title=Top UK physics departments tumble in new assessment|url=https://physicsworld.com/a/top-uk-physics-departments-tumble-in-new-assessment//|website=18 December 2008|publisher=[[Physics World]]}}</ref> From 2005 to 2008, he was founding Director of the University's [http://www.bath.ac.uk/research/centres/cppm/ Centre for Photonics and Photonic Materials].
'''Jonathan C. Knight''', {{post-nominals|country=GBR|size=100%|sep=,|FRS}} (born 1964, in [[Lusaka]]) is a British physicist. He is the Pro Vice-Chancellor (Research) for the [[University of Bath]]<ref>{{cite web|last1=Knight|first1=Jonathan|title=Leadership profile|url=https://www.bath.ac.uk/profiles/pro-vice-chancellor-research-jonathan-knight/|website=24 September 2018|publisher=[[University of Bath]]}}</ref> where he has been Professor in the Department of Physics since 2000, and served as head of department.<ref>{{cite web|last1=Harris|first1=Margaret |title=Top UK physics departments tumble in new assessment|url=https://physicsworld.com/a/top-uk-physics-departments-tumble-in-new-assessment//|website=18 December 2008|date=18 December 2008 |publisher=[[Physics World]]}}</ref> From 2005 to 2008, he was founding Director of the university's Centre for Photonics and Photonic Materials.


==Education==
==Education==
Knight studied at the [[University of Cape Town]] where he obtained his B.Sc (Hons), M.Sc. and PhD. His doctoral thesis was on whispering gallery mode microlasers. He did postdoctoral research at the [[École Normale Supérieure]] (Paris, 1994–1995) and at the Optoelectronics Research Centre ([[University of Southampton]], 1995–1996).
Knight studied at the [[University of Cape Town]] where he obtained his B.Sc. (Hons), M.Sc. and PhD. His doctoral thesis was on whispering gallery mode microlasers. He did postdoctoral research at the [[École Normale Supérieure]] (Paris, 1994–1995) and at the Optoelectronics Research Centre ([[University of Southampton]], 1995–1996).


== Research ==
== Research ==
Knight is interested in the behaviour of light in microstructured materials, and in the physics of optical fibres.<ref name=googlescholar>{{Google scholar id | YDjo1I8AAAAJ | Jonathan Knight}}</ref> Working with Russell and Tim Birks, he designed, fabricated and demonstrated a number of novel forms of optical fibre waveguide with previously unobtainable characteristics.<ref>{{cite web|title=Physics professors receive Rank Prize for optical fibre discoveries|url=https://www.myscience.org.uk/wire/physics_professors_receive_rank_prize_for_optical_fibre_discoveries-2018-Bath/|website=15 February 2018|publisher=My Science}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|first1=Gache|last1=Gabriel|title=Newly Designed Optical Fiber Is Hollow|url=https://news.softpedia.com/news/Newly-Designed-Optical-Fiber-is-Hallow-76654.shtml/|website=18 January 2008|publisher=Softpedia}}</ref> This work has led to a range of outcomes including the commercialisation<ref>{{cite web|last1=Sabert|first1=Hendrik|last2=Knight|first2=Jonathan|title=Hollow-Core Fibers Seek the 'Holey' Grail|url=https://www.photonics.com/Articles/Hollow-Core_Fibers_Seek_the_Holey_Grail/a16628/|website=August 2003|publisher=[[Photonics Spectra]]}}</ref><sup>,</sup><ref>{{cite news|last1=Lloyd|first1=Hywel|title=8m deal as city firm sells assets to rival|website=10 August 2004|publisher=[[Bath Chronicle]]}}</ref> of a new form of light source ([[supercontinuum]]), high power short pulse laser delivery through fibre, and applications in quantum and atomic physics.<ref>{{cite web|last1=Wadsworth|first1=William |last2=Knight|first2=Jonathan|last3=Birks|first3=Tim|title=State-of-the-Art Photonic Crystal Fiber|url=https://www.osa-opn.org/home/articles/volume_23/issue_3/features/of-the-art_photonic_crystal_fiber/|website=1 March 2012|publisher=[[Optics and Photonics News]]}}</ref> Belardi and Knight proposed the hollow-core "nested-ring" design for photonic fibres, at the beginning of 2014.<ref>{{cite web|last1=Wallace|first1=John|title=Hollow-core antiresonant optical fibers: Part II|url=https://www.laserfocusworld.com/articles/2014/10/hollow-core-antiresonant-optical-fibers-part-ii.html/|website=05 March 2019|publisher=[[Laser Focus World]]}}</ref> Together with William Wadsworth, Knight co-created a new kind of laser capable of pulsed and continuous mid-infrared (IR) emission between 3.1 and 3.2 microns, a spectral range that has long presented a major challenge for laser developers.<ref>{{cite web|title=New laser achieves wavelength long sought by laser developers|url=https://phys.org/news/2016-02-laser-wavelength-sought.html/|website=05 March 2019|publisher=Phys.Org}}</ref>
Knight is interested in the behaviour of light in microstructured materials, and in the physics of optical fibres.<ref name=googlescholar>{{Google scholar id | YDjo1I8AAAAJ | Jonathan Knight}}</ref> Working with Russell and Tim Birks, he designed, fabricated and demonstrated a number of novel forms of optical fibre waveguide with previously unobtainable characteristics.<ref>{{cite web|title=Physics professors receive Rank Prize for optical fibre discoveries|url=https://www.myscience.org.uk/wire/physics_professors_receive_rank_prize_for_optical_fibre_discoveries-2018-Bath/|website=15 February 2018|date=15 February 2018 |publisher=My Science}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|first1=Gache|last1=Gabriel|title=Newly Designed Optical Fiber Is Hollow|url=https://news.softpedia.com/news/Newly-Designed-Optical-Fiber-is-Hallow-76654.shtml/|website=18 January 2008|date=18 January 2008 |publisher=Softpedia}}</ref> This work has led to a range of outcomes including the commercialisation<ref>{{cite web|last1=Sabert|first1=Hendrik|last2=Knight|first2=Jonathan|title=Hollow-Core Fibers Seek the 'Holey' Grail|url=https://www.photonics.com/Articles/Hollow-Core_Fibers_Seek_the_Holey_Grail/a16628/|website=August 2003|publisher=[[Photonics Spectra]]}}</ref><sup>,</sup><ref>{{cite news|last1=Lloyd|first1=Hywel|title=8m deal as city firm sells assets to rival|website=10 August 2004|publisher=[[Bath Chronicle]]}}</ref> of a new form of light source ([[supercontinuum]]), high power short pulse laser delivery through fibre, and applications in quantum and atomic physics.<ref>{{cite web|last1=Wadsworth|first1=William |last2=Knight|first2=Jonathan|last3=Birks|first3=Tim|title=State-of-the-Art Photonic Crystal Fiber|url=https://www.osa-opn.org/home/articles/volume_23/issue_3/features/of-the-art_photonic_crystal_fiber/|website=1 March 2012|publisher=[[Optics and Photonics News]]}}</ref> Belardi and Knight proposed the hollow-core "nested-ring" design for photonic fibres, at the beginning of 2014.<ref>{{cite web|last1=Wallace|first1=John|title=Hollow-core antiresonant optical fibers: Part II|url=https://www.laserfocusworld.com/articles/2014/10/hollow-core-antiresonant-optical-fibers-part-ii.html/|website=05 March 2019|date=28 October 2014 |publisher=[[Laser Focus World]]}}</ref> Together with William Wadsworth, Knight co-created a new kind of laser capable of pulsed and continuous mid-infrared (IR) emission between 3.1 and 3.2 microns, a spectral range that has long presented a major challenge for laser developers.<ref>{{cite web|title=New laser achieves wavelength long sought by laser developers|url=https://phys.org/news/2016-02-laser-wavelength-sought.html/|website=05 March 2019|publisher=Phys.Org}}</ref>


==Awards and recognition==
==Awards and recognition==
*Elected [[Fellow of the Royal Society]], 2019. [https://royalsociety.org/news/2019/04/royal-society-announces-2019-fellows/ "Distinguished scientists elected as Fellows and Foreign Members of the Royal Society, 16 April 2019"]
*Elected [[Fellow of the Royal Society]], 2019.<ref>[https://royalsociety.org/news/2019/04/royal-society-announces-2019-fellows/ "Distinguished scientists elected as Fellows and Foreign Members of the Royal Society, 16 April 2019"]</ref>
*[[Rank Prize in Optoelectronics]] Optoelectronics Prize, 2018<ref name=optfund>{{cite web | title=Past Prizes in Optoelectronics | website=The Rank Prize Funds | url=http://www.rankprize.org/index.php/prizes/optoelectronics | access-date=11 July 2020}}</ref><ref>[http://www.rankprize.org/index.php/prizes/prizes-2018 "For the invention and realisation of photonic crystal fibres."]</ref>
*[http://www.rankprize.org/ Rank Prize Funds] Optoelectronics Prize, 2018, [http://www.rankprize.org/index.php/prizes/prizes-2018 "For the invention and realisation of photonic crystal fibres."] Physics Professors Tim Birks and Jonathan Knight have received The Rank Prize for Optoelectonics 2018 for their work on photonic crystal fibres. The pair were reunited with former colleague Professor Philip Russell, who now works in Germany, at an awards ceremony in London on Monday 12 February where each received a £30,000 prize for their ground-breaking work.
*[[Institute of Physics]] Optics and Photonics Division Prize, 2012
*[[Institute of Physics]] Optics and Photonics Division Prize, 2012{{citation needed|date=July 2020}}
*Fellow of [[Optical Society of America]], 2011, [https://www.osa.org/en-us/awards_and_grants/fellow_members/recent_fellows/2011_fellows/ For pioneering development of the photonic crystal fiber and particularly its application in nonlinear frequency conversion and supercontinuum generation.]
*Fellow of [[Optical Society of America]], 2011<ref>[https://www.osa.org/en-us/awards_and_grants/fellow_members/recent_fellows/2011_fellows/ For pioneering development of the photonic crystal fiber and particularly its application in nonlinear frequency conversion and supercontinuum generation.]</ref>
*[[Leverhulme Trust]] Research Fellowship, 2005/2006
*[[Leverhulme Trust]] Research Fellowship, 2005–2006{{citation needed|date=July 2020}}


==Selected publications==
==Selected publications==
* {{cite journal|last1=Yu|first1=F.|last2=Wadsworth|first2=W.J.|last3=Knight|first3=J.C.|title=Low loss silica hollow-core fibers for 3-4 μm spectral region|journal=Optics Express|volume=20|issue=10|year=2012|pages=11153–8|doi=10.1364/OE.20.011153|pmid=22565738}}
* {{cite journal|last1=Yu|first1=F.|last2=Wadsworth|first2=W.J.|last3=Knight|first3=J.C.|title=Low loss silica hollow-core fibers for 3-4 μm spectral region|journal=Optics Express|volume=20|issue=10|year=2012|pages=11153–8|doi=10.1364/OE.20.011153|pmid=22565738|bibcode=2012OExpr..2011153Y |url=http://opus.bath.ac.uk/29830/1/Knight__Optics%2DExpress_2012_20_10_11153.pdf|doi-access=free}}
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* {{cite journal|last1=Knight|first1=J. C.|title=Photonic crystal fibres|journal=Nature|volume=424|issue=6950|year=2003|pages=847–851|doi=10.1038/nature01940|pmid=12917699}}
* {{cite journal|last1=Knight|first1=J. C.|title=Photonic crystal fibres|journal=Nature|volume=424|issue=6950|year=2003|pages=847–851|doi=10.1038/nature01940|pmid=12917699|bibcode=2003Natur.424..847K |s2cid=23008689}}
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|doi=10.1126/science.1070033|pmid=11951025
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* {{cite journal|last1=Knight|first1=J. C.|last2=Broeng|first2=J.|last3=Birks|first3=T. A.|last4=Russell|first4=P. St.J.|title=Photonic band gap guidance in optical fibers|journal=Science|volume=282|issue=5393|year=1998|pages=1476–1478|doi=10.1126/science.282.5393.1476}}
* {{cite journal|last1=Knight|first1=J. C.|last2=Broeng|first2=J.|last3=Birks|first3=T. A.|last4=Russell|first4=P. St.J.|title=Photonic band gap guidance in optical fibers|journal=Science|volume=282|issue=5393|year=1998|pages=1476–1478|doi=10.1126/science.282.5393.1476|pmid=9822375}}
* {{cite journal
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|doi=10.1364/OL.22.001129}}
|doi=10.1364/OL.22.001129|pmid=18185771
|bibcode=1997OptL...22.1129K
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* {{cite journal|last1=Knight|first1=J. C.|last2=Birks|first2=T. A.|last3=Russell|first3=P. St. J.|last4=Atkin|first4=D. M.|title=All-silica single-mode optical fiber with photonic crystal cladding|journal=Optics Letters|volume=21|issue=19|year=1996|pages=1547–9|doi=10.1364/OL.21.001547|pmid=19881720}}
* {{cite journal|last1=Knight|first1=J. C.|last2=Birks|first2=T. A.|last3=Russell|first3=P. St. J.|last4=Atkin|first4=D. M.|title=All-silica single-mode optical fiber with photonic crystal cladding|journal=Optics Letters|volume=21|issue=19|year=1996|pages=1547–9|doi=10.1364/OL.21.001547|pmid=19881720|bibcode=1996OptL...21.1547K }}


==References==
==References==
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==External links==
==External links==
*{{Google Scholar ID|YDjo1I8AAAAJ| Jonathan Knight}}
*[http://www.bath.ac.uk/departments/department-of-physics/ Physics at the University of Bath]
*[http://www.bath.ac.uk/departments/department-of-physics/ Physics at the University of Bath]
*[http://www.bath.ac.uk/research/centres/cppm/people/academic-staff/jonathan_knight/ Prof Knight profile] at [[University of Bath]].
*[http://www.bath.ac.uk/research/centres/cppm/people/academic-staff/jonathan_knight/ Prof Knight profile] at [[University of Bath]].
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Latest revision as of 06:15, 3 January 2024

Jonathan Cave Knight
Born17 June 1964 (1964-06-17)
Lusaka, Zambia
NationalityBritish
Alma materUniversity of Cape Town
Known forPhotonic-crystal fiber
Optical Fibers
Scientific career
FieldsPhysics, photonics
InstitutionsUniversity of Bath
Thesis Whispering gallery mode microlaser in a capillary fibre  (1993)
Doctoral advisorG N Robertson, H S T Driver

Jonathan C. Knight, FRS (born 1964, in Lusaka) is a British physicist. He is the Pro Vice-Chancellor (Research) for the University of Bath[1] where he has been Professor in the Department of Physics since 2000, and served as head of department.[2] From 2005 to 2008, he was founding Director of the university's Centre for Photonics and Photonic Materials.

Education

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Knight studied at the University of Cape Town where he obtained his B.Sc. (Hons), M.Sc. and PhD. His doctoral thesis was on whispering gallery mode microlasers. He did postdoctoral research at the École Normale Supérieure (Paris, 1994–1995) and at the Optoelectronics Research Centre (University of Southampton, 1995–1996).

Research

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Knight is interested in the behaviour of light in microstructured materials, and in the physics of optical fibres.[3] Working with Russell and Tim Birks, he designed, fabricated and demonstrated a number of novel forms of optical fibre waveguide with previously unobtainable characteristics.[4][5] This work has led to a range of outcomes including the commercialisation[6],[7] of a new form of light source (supercontinuum), high power short pulse laser delivery through fibre, and applications in quantum and atomic physics.[8] Belardi and Knight proposed the hollow-core "nested-ring" design for photonic fibres, at the beginning of 2014.[9] Together with William Wadsworth, Knight co-created a new kind of laser capable of pulsed and continuous mid-infrared (IR) emission between 3.1 and 3.2 microns, a spectral range that has long presented a major challenge for laser developers.[10]

Awards and recognition

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Selected publications

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  • Yu, F.; Wadsworth, W.J.; Knight, J.C. (2012). "Low loss silica hollow-core fibers for 3-4 μm spectral region" (PDF). Optics Express. 20 (10): 11153–8. Bibcode:2012OExpr..2011153Y. doi:10.1364/OE.20.011153. PMID 22565738.
  • Stone, J. M.; Knight, J. C. (2008). "Visibly "white" light generation in uniform photonic crystal fiber using a microchip laser" (PDF). Optics Express. 16 (4): 2670–2675. Bibcode:2008OExpr..16.2670S. doi:10.1364/OE.16.002670. PMID 18542351.

References

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