That was interesting to see. Lately I've been exposed a bit more to electronics, before it intimidated me a bit I guess, but once studied it doesn't seem too hard to construct something little like a radio with a Rasberry Pi for example.
When I get back to uni, i'm going to try to make a photo diode detector to use in my masters thesis work. It's a good thing to have as a side skill, some electronics background i mean.
Cheers dude!
Great! If you make anything, be sure to post about it as I'd like to get into Pi projects more sometime and would love to see some other projects with the platform.
Do you mean a photodiode radiation detector or just a light detector? I have worked with photodiode radiation detectors in the past but have never actually gotten my personal one working. They are really useful tools since they can reliably detect gamma radiation without an irritating high voltage supply.
Yeah it is something i will surely start to learn when the time is right.
The photo detector will used to detect photons in and around the visible spectrum. I am hoping to use to it in the implementation of my Opto-Mechanics Physics Thesis.
I must detect the phase noise of a laser that has been mode cleaned by a filtering cavity. So I want to make a detector that minimises phase noise specifically, amplitude noise is not so important, but I must be able to detect phase noise with high sensitivity.
I hope that made some sense haha.
What about you my friend? What is your area of speciality?
Awesome, I'd love to see any such device that you end up building. I don't know a ton about lasers but your explanation makes sense.
Personally I'm still getting my undergraduate degree (physics and aerospace engineering), but I hope to go to graduate school for physics in the next few years. So I don't yet have a well defined specialization.
Just keep going, keep studying, working hard, even when it's a pain in the arse. Always believe in yourself, I didnt come from a great background, but with self belief and determination anything is possible man.
You'll find your favoured area and you will excel, keep doing your thing man.
If I can ever give you advice you know where to find me. I'm always happy to help good people.
Rock on dude!
Are you on discord? What's your user name?