- A to Z of Optics
 - Offers optics/photonics information, including news, new products, optics company directory, events, jobs, and more. - Computer Animations of Physical Processes: Optics
- Illustrates and explains the reflection and refraction of light, Fraunhofer diffraction, colour vision theory, lasers, and related topics.
- CVU MSc Projects: Optics
- Resource with text, diagrams, and equations designed to explain the basics of optical systems and lenses.
- Dual Nature of Light as Reflected in the Nobel Archive, The
- Highlights the work and findings of Noble Prize winners addressing the Wave-Particle Duality of light.
- Eric Weisstein's World of Physics: Optics
- Provides information about and equations and laws for refraction, diffraction, polarization, and reflection.
- Exploratorium Science Snacks: Snacks About Refraction
- Miniature versions of some of the most popular exhibits at the Exploratorium that teachers can use in their classrooms.
- Fundamentals of Optics, The
- Introduction to the scientific study of light.
- How Far Does Light Go?
- Debate project which engages students in an examination of the scientific properties of light by engaging them with relevant evidence from the Web.
- HowStuffWorks: How Light Works
- Presents different ways of thinking about light, addresses what it actually is, how colours are made, and other aspects of the phenomenon.
- HyperPhysics: Light and Vision
- Provides definitions and illustrated examples for optic terms and phenomena.
- Light Tour
- Find out about types of light, space images in different types of light, light wavelengths, and why astronomers need to use them.
- Lighting Academy Portal
- Portal on lighting featuring lighting designers, organisations, projects, and light art collections.
- Lighting Encyclopedia
- Scientific concepts and theories of light and vision, including the basics of lighting and illumination.
- lightsources.org
- News, information, and educational materials about the world's light source facilities, accelerator-based sources of exceptionally intense, tightly focused beams of x rays and ultraviolet radiation, as well as infrared.
- Molecular Expressions Microscopy Primer: Light and Color
- Explores many of the aspects of visible light starting with an introduction to electromagnetic radiation and continuing through to human vision and the perception of colour.
- Molecular Expressions: Science, Optics & You
- Designed to promote the asking and answering of questions related to light, colour, and optics.
- Optics
- Online physics textbook by Benjamin Crowell covering the ray model of light, images by reflection, refraction and images, and wave optics.
- Optics2001.com
- Features an online library of technical documents, forums, a directory, and other member services.
- OpticsForTeens
- Provides information about what optics is and what people in optics do, cool online lab experiments, and optical illusions to play around with.
- Patterns in Nature: Light and Optics
- Offers readings, activities, and exercises dealing with a particular concepts in light, optics, or microscopy.
- Polarization.com: Polarized Light in Nature and Technology
- Explores the invisible world of polarized light.
- Van Gogh Museum Light Exhibition
- All facets of light and changes in the evolution of and its role in art, science, and technology in the modern era are illuminated.
- Wave Properties of Light
- Examines some of the properties of light that can only be understood in terms of a wave-like description.
- What are Those Squiggly Lines? Using Light to Learn About the Universe
- Makes the concepts of light and astronomical spectroscopy understandable at a middle school to high school level.
- What Is Light?: No One Really has the Faintest Idea
- Review of the book, The Fire Within the Eye: A Historical Essay on the Nature and Meaning of Light, by David Park.
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