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NexusN
May19-11, 08:45 AM
Hello everyone,
thank you for clicking the link and listen to my words.

I am a year 2(and would be year 3) Electronic Engineering undergraduate,
being interested in optoelectronic and would like to go deeper inside.
What amused me is the possibility of integrating optical communication into the microscopic world, say, can we replace the electrical connection on a PCB by the optical stuff? How about using the all optical logic gates to implement a computer?
Sorry if I am raising some questions that maybe silly, but that's what I want to know more.

Before I would take the final year I have got a chance of having a year of workstudy, and I am deferring my university study for a year.

In view of this, besides the work from the job, I don't want to waste my leisure time that, I would like to learn some knowledge and prepare myself a bit for the later study in optics.

I have just taken a simple course called "Introduction to Optical Communication" and learnt about dispersion, attenuation, simple optical transmitter, sensor, amplifiers something. And I don't have a very good base of Mathematics, which I worry could be an obstacle to my further study.

Therefore I am taking the opportunity of workstudy to enhance my basic skill for my study, would you mind suggesting me some books about optics, especially microscopic; or books teaching Mathematics or Physics that you think needed for optoelectronic? I have found some books talking about Silicon Photonics and Nonlinear Optics, how should I start my study?

Thank you very much for your kind attention.