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Oh man, I used to research in OCT for deep brain stimulation! It's pretty cool tech, that is for sure. It's got a huge market for bio applications and certain i
by Balgair 6y ago
Oh man, I used to research in OCT for deep brain stimulation! It's pretty cool tech, that is for sure. It's got a huge market for bio applications and certain industrials.
That said, optics is a super finicky field. You can come in and get a Nobel for 5 hours work, or you can spend 50 years in a dark room trying to get things together. Alignment is crazy difficult, thought it seems it shouldn't be.
Anyone that wants to dive into optics: Just do it for 2 years, no more.
- duncanawoods 6y agoTell me more about getting a Nobel in 5 hours. I’ll buy your ebook :)
- jl2718 6y agoAlignment should be done system-wide by orders of magnitude. If you are on a breadboard, get everything to within a cm of final location, then everything within a mm, etc. Don’t ever spend more than 1 minute at a time on any component. This stuff was not in the textbooks.
- Balgair 6y agoIt's especially hard with OCT as it's in the IR spectrum. You just have to go on your meters alone. It takes forever.
- ncmncm 6y agoMeaning, if you don't get there in two years, you won't?