John Love (2 October 1942 – 19 June 2016)[1] was a pioneer in the field of fibre optics,[2] who co-authoring the widely used textbook Optical Waveguide Theory and was Emeritus Professor of guided wave photonics at Australian National University (ANU).
[3][4] Born in England,[1] Love received a masters and DPhil in applied mathematics from the University of Cambridge and University of Oxford.
[5] 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.
[1][4][6] As an Emeritus Professor at ANU he helped create the Wanda Henry Scholarship in Photonics.
In 2015 Love cofounded the Australian company Modular Photonics.