Please submit here pages that focus on the historical development of the knowledge of light properties and applications of these studies. Sites that have content about physics history should be submitted to Science/Physics/History.

The study of past developments in the understanding of light properties and applications of this knowledge such as the use of eyeglasses or lenses for telescopes.

Sites about laser manufacturers and suppliers should go to Business/Electronics_and_Electrical/Optoelectronics_and_Fiber/Lasers/ or related categories.

Sites about laser applications should go to the proper subject category that deals primarily with the application.

Research about lasers and involving lasers.

This field of Physics involves the exploitation of optical properties in semiconductors and other devices.

This category is a listing of personal webpages related to physics, but relating only to the subfield of Optics. General physicists sites should be submitted to Science/Physics/Physicists.

Sites listed in this category will have the name of the physicist as the title. The format will be surname, given name. (Or Last Name, First Name).

Sites which seem to have a bit of physics content and a lot of non-physics stuff should go to Society/People/Personal_Homepages

Sites listed in this category will have the name of the physicist as the title. The format will be surname, given name. (Or Last Name, First Name).

This category contains sites of companies which produce optical equipment for research, and sites which provide information on equipment for optics research.

Institutions, laboratories and other groups carrying out scientific research in Optics.

Optical instrument to form spectra.