Depends on many factors. In order to make your presentation stand out, you might want to skip the basics. If you think you should include them anyway; then just touch upon them very briefly. I'd even skip history. I'd rather present something on the innovative applications which could be used in future devices. That would make the presentation very interesting.

PS: There's no relation to you belonging to a local college and being equated to the 'less'. Come on! Your way of presenting your question in this thread is a clear evidence that you're better than tons of engineers out there. Besides, you are a CEan. You're the best! 👍

Thank you.Thanks a lot!😀

Optical computing was an emerging hot R&D field in the early 80s. Limitations of materials lead to a tapering off of interest. Newer processes and materials have led to a resurgence of interest in this area that can lead to lightning fast (sorry, could not resist the pun) computing.

You can see if this area would interest you. There is a general article (for the non specialist) on this by Debabrata Goswami in the June 2003 issue of the journal Resonance, which you can look up if you want.