Brief Biography

Robert Owens James (1944-2015) received his Ph.D. in Chemistry from the University of Melbourne, Australia. He spent most of his professional career at the former Research Laboratories of the Eastman Kodak Company, Rochester, New York, where he distinguished himself in the areas of film sciences and materials sciences. In all he was awarded more than 30 US Patents for his work on magnetically encoded materials, magnetic particles, and various types of photographic films. Toward the end of his tenure at the Eastman Kodak Company (2003-2005) he joined efforts with Frank Duarte to create a new class of tunable organic laser materials, incorporating inorganic nanoparticles, which offer improved spatial and spectral coherence and better thermal characteristics.

Selected Publications

• F. J. Duarte and R. O. James, Organic dye-doped polymer-nanoparticle tunable lasers, in Tunable Laser Applications, 3rd Ed. (CRC, New York, 2016) Chapter 4.

• F. J. Duarte and R. O. James, Dye-doped nanoparticle gain medium, US Patent 6888862 B2 (2005).
• F. J. Duarte and R. O. James, Tunable solid-state lasers incorporating dye-doped, polymer–nanoparticle gain media, Appl. Opt. 43, 4088-4090 (2004).
• F. J. Duarte and R. O. James, Spatial structure of dye-doped polymer nanoparticle laser media, Opt. Lett. 28, 2088-2090 (2003).

• R. O. James, L. A. Rowley, J. A. Verdone, R. M. Wexler, Photographic element having a transparent magnetic recording layer, US Patent 25432050 A (1995).
• R. O. James, S. J. Bertucci, G. L. Oltean, Magnetic particles, US Patent 5217804 A (1993).
• R. O. James, S. J. Bertucci, G. L. Oltean, Transparent magnetic recording layers and photographic elements containing the same, US Patent 5252441 A (1993).