/sci/ - Science & Math

>>6512642
I think it will remain, at least in the foreseeable future, imperative for a photonic engineer to know his electronics. Photonic technologies can't be implemented without them, which is why we have more coursework with EE at my school than any other major. But photonic technologies will enable us to do things that pure electronics can't in an extremely broad domain of fields (from medical to aerospace), and this just isn't the future -- it's happening now.

>>6113891
It's a new undergrad program at my uni. We have a very successful grad program in it, with research spanning from attosecond lasers to quantum optics and augmented reality, so I've got a bit of time to explore these labs and find what I like. The meat of the course looks like pic related. A common approach to enter the field is to get an EE undergrad degree and do photonics in grad school since undergrad programs aren't very common yet.

>>5892261
This anon >>5892177 here. It's pretty rare to find such an undergraduate program, but my university added a bachelor's program for it that starts next year.
But there are plenty of optics/photonics graduate programs out there (always a good choice in the field), and studying general physics or electrical engineering will set you up pretty well for these.

>>5892289
Yup, it's a thing. Here they treat it as a sort of hybrid between physics and a specialization of EE