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[aryan_605]

im a physics major and i want to specialize in optics..
any suggestions which path and university i should follow
what would a good idea as of making good money in future and also doing research by specializing in optics (physics)

 

[cmos]

University of Rochester and University of Arizona would be among the top.

 

[aryan_605]

thank you friend...
i ultimately i want to research in meta-materials...
any university who would be doing that..
i was thinking about penn state..
how does tat sounds

 

[cmos]

That's a "hot" topic these days, so you could probably find lot more information that I could list here. But some other places you could look into are Duke and Purdue. I think there might be some work in this area at UC Berkely too.

 

[Andy Resnick]

thank you friend...
i ultimately i want to research in meta-materials...
any university who would be doing that..
i was thinking about penn state..
how does tat sounds

I include colloidal materials/artifical opal/photonic bandgap materials under metamaterials.

I know Arjun Yodh at Penn, and he is excellent. New York university has a new soft matter group doing similar work as well. There's a guy at Emory who is good (Eric Weeks), you have quite a large pool of possibilities.