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Photonics is what you get when light stops being something you observe and becomes something you engineer — generated by a laser, guided down a glass fibre, modulated at tens of gigabits per second, amplified without ever converting back to electricity, and detected at the far end of an ocean.

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How should I approach learning fiber optics and photonics?
Photonics is what you get when light stops being something you observe and becomes something you engineer — generated by a laser, guided down a glass fibre, modulated at tens of gigabits per second, amplified without ever converting back to electricity, and detected at the far end of an ocean.
What's a good book to start fiber optics and photonics with?
A strong starting point is Optical fiber communications by Gerd Keiser. The ordered reading paths above show exactly where it fits and what to read next.

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