Best optoelectronics books according to redditors

Fundamental of Photonics provides a good overview of photonics and optics.

Silicon Photonics Design: From Devices to Systems might be more in your alley if you're going for chip-based applications.

Hmmm.....

>why would anyone use mirrors when the cost of a roll of quality foil is only a few bucks and can be cut to size?

A mirror was likely not used, Mylar was. You can see in certain areas where the Mylar was not flat causing distortions. Either that or a first surface mirror like material that behaves like Mylar. Optically they would behave the same. The OP never actually stated what the material was.

>Depending on the intensity of the light, using shitty mirrors has a high chance to cause light issues.

Prove it- the burden of proof is on you as the person making the claim. I've done a lot of testing and have never seen light burn from any mirror or mirror like material with indoor grow lighting levels.

>The issues that foil could cause all stem from shitty application and carelessness of installation. If you keep your foil smooth and unwrinkled, you'll have zero chance of light issues.

I used wrinkled and non-smooth foil in my lighting guide to demonstrate that at half full sunlight intensities plants were not burning. Due to non-photochemical quenching alone one should not go past these lighting levels which is about 1000uMol/m2/sec. I even formed concave structures to try to burn plants. It never happened. In this case a quantum light meter was used instead of a more accurate NIST tracable spectrometer.

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>Glass absorbs light? Interesting theory or use of the word "absorb"

Ok......

Of course glass absorbs some light. For example, one can easily construct an "infinity mirror" and easily visualize the absorption of glass.




This is optics 101 here and why camera lenses will have optical coatings to help with the internal reflections of light that causes greater absorption. For example, a camera zoom lens with 20 optical glass elements (up to three glass elements may be used to create a single lens to ensure that the light is all focused to the same point) without coatings and much of this light would be lost due to internal reflections. The glass elements will have slightly different refractive indexes to accomplish this focusing of different wavelengths of light and help eliminate chromatic aberrations.

These internal reflections are absorbed by the glass.

Prime lenses don't have this problem as much but will still have optical coatings so that not as much light is absorbed by the glass.

In typical imaging systems, this improves the efficiency since less light is lost (wiki quote). They are referring to the absorption of light with glass. The transmittance of a single element (two surfaces) may be as low as 90% depending on the type of glass with no optical coatings. (edit - here's a sample transmittance chart).

Due to being reflected by a back coating the light of a "normal" mirror has to go through four uncoated surfaces which is why second surface mirrors should not be used as previously mentioned.

There will also be some scattering inside glass that also gets absorbed since glass is a non-crystaling material which is more prone to irregularities called grain bounderies.

An good example of glass absorbing a lot of light is the presidential limo with four inch thick glass (and polycarbonates). This is really more due to the Beer-Lambert Law because of the thickness of the material:

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You wanted interesting theory on glass absorption and I just kindly gave it to you. Lighting and lighting theory are my specialties and honestly you are going to get way above your head here if you do not even understand the basics of how glass behaves.

edit- if you want to learn more buy this book (I have the 1st edition):

https://www.amazon.com/Introduction-Radiometry-Photometry-Ross-McCluney/dp/1608078337

Dear CyberGrid,

I recommend the following two books, they address the exact topics/skills that you are looking for:

https://www.amazon.de/gp/product/3319045121/

https://www.amazon.de/exec/obidos/asin/0470402296

Have fun exploring,

G

You have no idea what you are talking about. Unless you have a degree in optoelectronics or nanooptics and have done any of the equations that matter, that take this difference into account, your argument is completely useless and naive. I recommend this book (or one of the newer editions): https://www.amazon.com/Optoelectronics-Photonics-Principles-Safa-Kasap/dp/0201610876

Soft X-Rays and Extreme Ultraviolet Radiation: Principles and Applications is suggested for the Berkley class by David Attwood (the author of the book) at Synchrotron Radiation for Materials Science Applications , which has video lectures online from the 2003 session on youtube (1, 2) and other sources. I've watched them all and gone through the course notes... it's not extremely enlightening as a lot of it is outside of the lectures. I never could find a 'free' version of Attwood's book.

That said, there's always Jackson's Classical Electrodynamics.

Sounds more like thermal/statistical physics than semiconductor physics honestly.

A good book for Statistical/Thermal Physics with problems worked out is: Fundamentals of Statistical and Thermal Physics by F. Reif

A good Book for more semiconductor problems is:
Introduction to Nanoelectronics: Science, Nanotechnology, Engineering, and Applications by V. Mitin

As you're an engineer, Quantum Mechanics for Scientists and Engineers might be of interest. It's written by a EE professor at Stanford.

A potentially nice optional feature of this is that Stanford offers a free online 9-week course based on this book with the author giving the online class. The latest offering of the course started Oct 4 and goes until Dec 16. If you're interested in that, I don't know if you could take it starting on your own now with access to the videos and course materials, or if you'd have to wait for the next offering. Here is a review by someone who took this course a couple years ago.

Disclaimer: I haven't read that book or taken this online class myself; it's just a potential idea that might be a fit or not

And I get what you are saying. Thank you for your comment. I was opposing the usual ads with the "sweeter buds" claims and scepticism is like a Pavlovian reflex ;) I read two Cervante books and even he just scratches the surface on soil biology explains all the basics, reducing it for relevant growing routines. It is a whole class itself. Just like lighting.

Cannabis cultivation is a lifetime learning process and I think besides shading some light onto cliche bro science nonsense it also cleared up some up my half-knowledge. In this case a niche of soil biology, which is deep as an ocean trench. I also enjoyed the discussion between flushing from a strict scientific point of view and the opposite. In the end it is all about learning and always being open to adjust ones "data base". I ordered a "Teaming with Microbes: A Gardener's Guide to the Soil Food Web" so this post was meant to be productive.

I am still reading and trying to understand Ross McCluney's Introduction to Radiometry and Photometry. Dense information, deep into the field, but highly recommended.

Cheers

During my engineering degree I studied semiconductors extensively. The two books I would recommend to you are Pierret for device fundamentals, and I think this is what I used for device fab. Since your lab does optoelectronics, I'll also recommend Kasap. These are all very much engineering oriented, so they are good if you're looking for a functional understanding of how these devices work.

Also, some of the solid state physics (learning about density of states, electronic structure, etc.) is probably better learned from Mermin and Ashcroft.

Any references, in particular, that you'd recommend for someone who wants to understand and delve more into the theory of the entire process, going from hardware, to driver, to software?

I already read Silicon Earth, which was very informative, but I crave MOAR knowledge.

And thank you for your response.

Double slit experiment for the most basic explanation:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DfPeprQ7oGc

And then, just get this book. Everything that I learned from the internet informally was covered in chapter 1 of this book:

Quantum Mechanics for Scientists and Engineers:

http://www.amazon.co.uk/Organic-Electroluminescent-Materials-Devices-Miyata/dp/2919875108 NOPENOPENOPENOPENOPENOPENOPENOPENOPENOPENOPENOPENOPENOPENOPENOPENOPENOPENOPENOPE