Greg Parker (physicist)
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Greg Parker (born 1954) is a British physicist. He served as a Professor of
Photonics Photonics is a branch of optics that involves the application of generation, detection, and manipulation of light in the form of photons through emission, transmission, modulation, signal processing, switching, amplification, and sensing. E ...
at the
University of Southampton The University of Southampton (abbreviated as ''Soton'' in post-nominal letters) is a public university, public research university in Southampton, England. Southampton is a founding member of the Russell Group of research-intensive universit ...
. He spent 23 years in research and lecturing.


Career

He now runs Parker Technology. His research interests included the design and construction of
Ultra High Vacuum Ultra-high vacuum (often spelled ultrahigh in American English, UHV) is the vacuum regime characterised by pressures lower than about . UHV conditions are created by pumping the gas out of a UHV chamber. At these low pressures the mean free path of ...
(UHV) compatible semiconductor deposition systems, and the design and fabrication of
Photonic Crystal A photonic crystal is an optical nanostructure in which the refractive index changes periodically. This affects the propagation of light in the same way that the structure of Crystal structure, natural crystals gives rise to X-ray crystallograp ...
circuits and devices. Most recently, he became interested in deep-sky imaging,
macrophotography Macro photography (or photomacrography or macrography, and sometimes macrophotography) is extreme close-up photography, usually of very small subjects and living organisms like insects, in which the size of the subject in the photograph is g ...
,
microphotography Microphotographs are photographs shrunk to microscopic scale.
, pin-hole camera photography and high-speed flash photography. He is the designer and developer of ultra-high speed
Xenon Xenon is a chemical element; it has symbol Xe and atomic number 54. It is a dense, colorless, odorless noble gas found in Earth's atmosphere in trace amounts. Although generally unreactive, it can undergo a few chemical reactions such as the ...
flash equipment. His photographic work is featured on the New Forest Observatory web site. He has 13 patents on optical devices and circuits and created three successful companies. His most recent spin-out from Southampton University was Mesophotonics Ltd. He is constructing the world's most powerful amateur deep-sky imaging system, the mini-WASP imaging array, named after the SuperWASP array built for the
Wide Angle Search for Planets WASP or Wide Angle Search for Planets is an international consortium of several academic organisations performing an ultra-wide angle search for exoplanets using transit photometry. The array of robotic telescopes aims to Astronomical survey, s ...
.


Publications

Parker published over 120 refereed journal and conference papers, a textbook on Solid-State Physics, ''Introductory Semiconductor Device Physics'', a "how to" book on
astrophotography Astrophotography, also known as astronomical imaging, is the photography or imaging of astronomical objects, celestial events, or areas of the night sky. The first photograph of an astronomical object (the Moon) was taken in 1839, but it was no ...
''Making Beautiful Deep-Sky Images'' and a large format book of deep-sky images taken from the New Forest Observatory, called ''Star Vistas''.


Recognition

Parker was a Chartered Engineer, a Chartered Physicist, and a Fellow of the
Institute of Physics The Institute of Physics (IOP) is a UK-based not-for-profit learned society and professional body that works to advance physics education, physics research, research and applied physics, application. It was founded in 1874 and has a worldwide ...
.


References

Academics of the University of Southampton Fellows of the Institute of Physics 1954 births Living people {{UK-physicist-stub