MS in Optics and Photonics?

Anyone got any degree in that field?

Thinking of adding that to my list and checking it out and see what's it all about after my Law and Microbiology degree.

Looks interesting.

Ultron said:

Anyone got any degree in that field?

Thinking of adding that to my list and checking it out and see what's it all about after my Law and Microbiology degree.

Looks interesting.

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Just thinking about that makes my brain hurt! Are you genetically enhanced or what?

Styropyro is our other resident genius with multiple degrees. We have one or two medical doctors. It seems that more than a few here studied electrical engineering or mechanical engineering.

Alan

Pi R Squared said:

Just thinking about that makes my brain hurt! Are you genetically enhanced or what?

Styropyro is our other resident genius with multiple degrees. We have one or two medical doctors. It seems that more than a few here studied electrical engineering or mechanical engineering.

Alan

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Well, I'm enhanced using various Nootropics and being a gym rat if that helps!

I just like learning. Being that my parents have a lot of money, I'm kinda using that as an excuse for now to not work and just learn more. Always did what I loved, VFX and Computer, so I got a degree in those and Law well just something that might help in the future and Molecular science because I love science. I love research and progress.

I love engineering, but I suck at maths. Do wanna get better at that and learn more into EE , ME, and CE.

Plus, that's my main goal with Microbiology, using virology to implement viruses that replicated brain chemicals and use that as an alternative for a more permanent option of Nootropics and brain enhancers.

Eh.... Engineering is easy in my opinion(just basic level math) understand and apply the formula is the hard part.... i'm a full time engineer...(electrical,Mechanical)....and fix giant ship for a living.....the best thing is you have to run around all over the place just to fix one part..... and the working environment is insane and deadly......don't be an Engineer... it will drive you insane..

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and the working environment is insane and deadly......don't be an Engineer... it will drive you insane..

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Yes many engineers are insane, that's a good thing though, many of them believe that anything is possible, it's often just an engineering detail that someone can figure out how to do sooner or later.


Alan

I think Steve at PL is currently going back to get Masters.
There are a few others at PL that work in the industry but I don't know what degrees they may have.

I'm currently working towards an associates in photonic. But since I just started I don't think I can really comment on this.


You'd sure have an interesting variety of degrees if you had Law, Microbiology and a Photonics degree. But what could you do that would use all of them is the question .

Mattronium said:

I think Steve at PL is currently going back to get Masters.
There are a few others at PL that work in the industry but I don't know what degrees they may have.

I'm currently working towards an associates in photonic. But since I just started I don't think I can really comment on this.


You'd sure have an interesting variety of degrees if you had Law, Microbiology and a Photonics degree. But what could you do that would use all of them is the question .

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Like I said before, I have one in Arts and Visual effects, Computer science, now Law and then Microbiology. None of these really match lol, I just happened to like studying them.

Are you trying to be like these guys?
Because you still have a little way to go...

Michigan Man Has 29 College Degrees and Isn't Stopping - ABC News
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Benjamin_Bolger

Mattronium said:

Are you trying to be like these guys?
Because you still have a little way to go...

Michigan Man Has 29 College Degrees and Isn't Stopping - ABC News
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Benjamin_Bolger

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Hahaha, nah. Stoping at Microbiology and then PhD in virology and I'm going pure research into that. Maybe just maybe Engineering. I'm horrible at maths.

Go read some books on manual para-axial ray tracing and get back to me....
Before you go for Optics, skim the following texts... Order anti-depressants in advance...

If you like and UNDERSTAND these books, then go for optics...

Lens Design Fundamentals, Second Edition, Kingslake
Modern Optical Engineering, 4th Ed Warren Smith
Introduction to Lens Design, Geary
Quantum Electronics, Yariv..
Nonlinear Optics, Boyd..
Femtosecond Laser Pulses: Principles and ExperimentsClaude Rulliere

Then three years in a lab suffering, most of the time waiting for 80,000$ lasers to be serviced, and adjusted by insane service engineers. If you like breaking 7,000$ crystals that can take up to three months to get, be my guest.
Many of the systems I work on have 100+ lenses, mirrors, and non-linear crystals. Each of those optics has three to seven adjustments.


Quantum Optics is insane... Lens Design is boring...

Add Physics I, Physics II, Electromagnetics, Lens Design, huge amounts of Quantum Theory, crystallography, Laser Theory, Calc III, Differential Equations, etc to your class list...

You sure you want to do that... If it were me I'd talk to Arizona State, and see what I had to do to get that Masters... A lot of pretty women there, but you won't have time to meet them... I know, I was there a few times...

Then consider going to Texas, get the two or four year optics and laser technician degree, and call it quits..

You'd be far better off getting an EE, a ME, or CE , maybe a MBA, then getting a Masters in Optics... Because that leads to needing the PhD in Optics or Physics to be employed... As our Department Secretary says, "A Masters is a just piece of paper, a Phd gets you a job." And she has the Masters...

All of it needs two or three years of advanced math... Which is why I am always a Technician or Field Service Engineer... Even then I need complex algebra several times an hour, when at work... I'm currently teaching myself basic, very basic, Heat Transfer... If, as you say, you do not like math, this is NOT for you.

Steve

LSRFAQ said:

Go read some books on manual para-axial ray tracing and get back to me....
Before you go for Optics, skim the following texts... Order anti-depressants in advance...

If you like and UNDERSTAND these books, then go for optics...

All of it needs two or three years of advanced math... Which is why I am always a Technician or Field Service Engineer... Even then I need complex algebra several times an hour, when at work... I'm currently teaching myself basic, very basic, Heat Transfer... If, as you say, you do not like math, this is NOT for you.

Steve

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Thanks a lot! Really appreciate the book links. Didn't really know where to start.
Its not that I hate maths, I just sucked at it and didn't really practice much if not any but if I do decided to go further with this in the future, I'll definitely put my effort into learning and advancing further.

LSRFAQ said:

Lens Design Fundamentals, Second Edition, Kingslake
Modern Optical Engineering, 4th Ed Warren Smith
Introduction to Lens Design, Geary
Quantum Electronics, Yariv..
Nonlinear Optics, Boyd..
Femtosecond Laser Pulses: Principles and ExperimentsClaude Rulliere

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Com'on. You just needed two Bibles: Optics by Born/Wolf and Lasers by Siegman and scare him by their size only :na:

Thinking of adding that to my list and checking it out and see what's it all about after my Law and Microbiology degree.

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Consider biophotics.



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MS in Laser Physics :shhh:

I miss Dr. Tony Siegman... Was a really nice guy, and a consummate educator. He reached out more then once by phone, and email to me when I was a sophomore. He even hung out on Newsgroups, which preceded forums. He also sent me a copy of his works on optically pumped mercury lasers, which should have became a commercial product. He understood the need to experiment as part of learning.

He's probably some place up in heaven re-optimizing Aurora Borealis for God.

That said, Bio-Photonics is hot for research and commercial work for at least the next five years...

Have you considered learning Chinese? That and Spanish will be a useful technical skill for a long. long, time...

Higher Math opens un-imaginable doors.. Both math and language learning start to fall off in your late 20s, bag it now while you still can...



Steve