Laser and Photonics

[FayetheADHDsquirrel]

Does anyone have experience with this field of study? It is one of the degrees available at the nearest community college.

 

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Does anyone have experience with this field of study? It is one of the degrees available at the nearest community college.

I don't know a lot about it, but Photonics could be a very useful field in the future, used in quantum computing.

Optics & Photonics News - Australia Bets Big on PsiQuantum

 

[FayetheADHDsquirrel]

So it sounds like it is a growing field that could be useful to know.

 

[FayetheADHDsquirrel]

Looks like it would be interesting too.
Out of the options available at the nearest community college, I think I am leaning towards this.

 

[Jumpinbare]

My degree is Physics. I got it at Georgia Tech, specializing in lasers and optics. If I went through those same classes today, my degree would be in electro-optics. That degree didn't exist yet in the 1970s.

 

[FayetheADHDsquirrel]

My degree is Physics. I got it at Georgia Tech, specializing in lasers and optics. If I went through those same classes today, my degree would be in electro-optics. That degree didn't exist yet in the 1970s.

Is it interesting?

 

[Jumpinbare]

It was for me. Your mileage could vary. I was already interested in lasers as a child, and electronics was my first special interest (in the sense of building/repairing as opposed to just using). My first laser was a helium-neon .8 milliwatt laser that ran off house current. It didn't take me long to amplitude modulate the beam and send music over laser to a remote receiver.
When I was in the Air Force, I worked with an airborne laser system. At my first long-term civilian job after the Air Force, I helped set up one of the early outdoor laser shows, and then maintained the system for over a year.

 

[FayetheADHDsquirrel]

It was for me. Your mileage could vary. I was already interested in lasers as a child, and electronics was my first special interest (in the sense of building/repairing as opposed to just using). My first laser was a helium-neon .8 milliwatt laser that ran off house current. It didn't take me long to amplitude modulate the beam and send music over laser to a remote receiver.
When I was in the Air Force, I worked with an airborne laser system. At my first long-term civilian job after the Air Force, I helped set up one of the early outdoor laser shows, and then maintained the system for over a year.

I liked to scatter fine particles in the area and shine the pointer laser to see the entire light path as a child. Didn't really have access to lasers beyond that. I did however, enjoy my electromagnetic kit. That would probably be the closest thing to it that I had growing up.