Oatmeal Box Pinhole Photography - Photo gallery plus directions to make a pinhole camera, take pictures and develop them. Also, links to other pinhole camera sites.

Optics for Kids - An overview of the basics of optics suitable for elementary school children. Also discusses careers in science and engineering.

Moiré Phenomenon - A book and a downloadable moire demonstration kit for printing on transparencies.

How Stuff Works: Light - Seven-segment detailed explanation uses drawings and animations to show how light works and how photons are generated, with many related links.

Polarized Light - Fascinating facts about polarized light, from rainbows to beetles, from viking navigation to LCD displays. Myths and truth about polarized sunglasses. Also a shop with polarized-only items.

Experiments With Diffraction Gratings - Interference and diffraction are the main phenomena which demonstrate the wave nature of the light. There are many optical devices, where these phenomena can be observed. Diffraction grating is one of them, which allows a beam of light to be resolved into different colors.

History of Optics - Timeline of optics-related historical moments.

Fraunhofer Lines - Prominent Fraunhofer lines in the spectrum of the sun are shown, together with their corresponding wavelengths. Very pretty!

Reflections In Choppy Water - Why does light reflecting off a lake or ocean appear to be "smeared" into a long strip?.

Nanoptics Plastic Fiberoptics in Medical Imaging Tutorial - Endoscopes and how they work.

Sighting the First Sense - Introduction to light. Topics touched upon include reflection, refraction, inteference and includes interactive applets to demonstrate theories. Designed by students for the ThinkQuest Internet Challenge 2000.

Plastic Fiberoptic Image Guides for Endoscopes - It is possible to produce a superior plastic image guide for an endoscope as opposed to glass which are incapable of standing strains over 1.5%.

The Speed of Light - Describes how the speed of light was measured. Includes curriculum-based science quizzes about light for K-12 (grades 4 to 7) students.

Optics Exercises and Tutorial - (Univ of Florida). A sample electronic lecture or worksheet.