Wednesday, March 2, 2011

Optoelectronics will take over the future

Now that you are reading this right now reflects that you are interested in knowing about what the future technology revolution would be like, and what all are the suitable career options. Electronics dominated the last few decades and VLSI made it possible to built the computers as that are now available. But, however the requirements of speed and performance of computers is ever increasing. This is where a new technology will be essential. This is because there is a limit in the speed possible using electronics. This is because electrons are used in an electronic system to operate. Light has got the maximum velocity and hence it is obvious that it is fastest in processing. However, using light to process data and perform optical computing is an idea that has come up long before the time of computers. The reason why the task of computing was done using electrons was that no technique was known to make light to compute. With the invention of LASER and realization of simple logic gates, optical computing has become an area of research. The spark has already begun. A cost effective fully functional optical transistor is a challenge. A lot of realization of optical transistors have already been made. But, the cost needs to be reduced and performance to be optimized. All of you who are interested in taking up new interesting fields of study should definitely choose this stream of study. I have taken Optoelectronics and Communication as a part of my M. Tech course. The scope of Optics is not only limited to computing, but sensing, bio-cal applications using Bio-photonics, high speed communication and so on. The reason for me to start this blog is to guide aspiring students who are taking up this filed of study to get basic awareness of the possibilities in the field. I would also be posting interesting projects and seminars in optoelectronics. I will include seminars, ebooks, pdf and interesting readings on biomedical diagnostic application of photonics, optic fiber sensing, industrial photonics, bio photonics and integrated optics. Digital Optical Signal Processing is an intresting area where a lot of research is being done.

3 comments:

  1. I am glad that we have got such a good website to provide us guidance and assistance in our seminar and projects at M. Tech level in Optoelectronics and communication.I am looking forward to full launch of your blog!

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  2. Great job! Can you please include a feed, so that I can subscribe to your posts?

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  3. POET technologies. check it out. They are on the verge of producing monolithic Optio Electronic chips for just about every industry out there. Very exciting.

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