i enjoyed the recent trends in photonics course a lot particularly because it didn't require much effort owing to the fact that you only need to be present during the lectures, give a lecture on one topic of interest, and make a paper about it. on the other hand, you would need to read, read, read some more, study and talk about your chosen topic but you do learn a lot and get stimulated to think of new ideas in the process. taking the course with someone who works at the military defense industry is an added bonus especially when he drops out hints of some highly classified projects by the military every now and again.
our own topic was on optogenetics, i've read at least twenty papers on the photonics part yet i'm not even close to knowing a quarter of what there is to know about this field even though it started barely twenty years ago. however, i had such a great time reading up and i'm happy we've stirred up some discussion after our talk. for instance, following the example on sight restoration using optogenetics technology, pieterjan questioned the possibility of implanting IR-sensitive opsins to the human eye. i never even thought about that possibility as i have already discarded the use of IR light since it would cause a lot of heating in the human tissue. but of course, what are engineers for but to solve such kind of problems, right? :P i can imagine all sorts of applications for such technology already!
i am still in the process of writing the report in journal format but the slides we used for the presentation are as follows:
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