History: Electromagnetism
History: OpticsOptical propertiesHistory: Optical Technology
Biographies of great opticiansTelescopes
Optical Communication
Spectroscopy
LEDs and LASERs
Fiber OpticsPsychophysics
Photometry/Radiometry
ColorManufacturers/DistributorsLightingGlass (and Optical Fibers)
Custom Glass Fabrication
Organic Optical Materials
Photonic Band Gap Materials
Lines and Waves (local copy): a history of electromagnetism which focuses on the contributions of Faraday and Maxwell -- from the IEEE Center for the History of Electrical Engineering.
Gallery of Electromagnetic Personalities - A Vignette History of Electromagnetics: by Professor L. Taylor of the University of Maryland.
Sketches of a History of Electromagnetism: from the University of Colorado at Boulder.
Episodes in Romantic Science: Oersted and
the
Discovery of Electromagnetism
by Frederick Gregory, Department of History at the University
of Florida.
A Brief History of Optics (local copy) from Lasers & Optics, Web Science Resources.
Optical properties:
Polarization: The Discovery of Polarization
Biographies of great opticians:
Dominique François Jean Arago (1786-1853)
Augustin Jean Fresnel (1788-1827)The research of Sir William Rowan Hamilton (1805-1865)
Christiaan Huygens (1629-1695)
Telescopes:
History of the Telescope from the Galileo Project at Rice UniversityOptical Communication
Notes on Optical TelegraphySpectroscopy:
The MIT history of spectroscopy.A History of Astronomical Spectroscopy from Laser StarLEDs and LASERs:
A wonderful overview of the broad sweep of MASER and LASER history (local copy)
LASER History (1917-1996) from LASERSTARS.org
Semiconductor injection (diode )laser
A History of LED Technolgy from Marktech
There is a very interesting set of optical illusions at "Fun Visual Tricks & Optical Illusions" (Reference thanks to Sarah at ValleyBookClub.com).
The Joy of Visual Perception: a web book on perception by Peter K. Kaiser of the Department of Psychology, York University.Visual Physiology: an interactive tutorial by George Mather of the School of Biological Sciences, University of Sussex.
Brightness, Luminance, and Confusion: a March 1993 article by Charles P. Halsted in Information Display.
Color Theory Lecture Notes from John W. Buchanan's course Introductory Computer Graphics.
Manufacturers/Distributors:
3M's Light Management Home PageDuPont Glass Laminating Products - Information for Architects and Owners. See, in particular, Architects Speak Out index of the Lamininated Glass News
Corning: home page
SUMITA: new glass and fiber technology
AFG Glass: home page
OPRI - Optical Polymer Research, Inc.
Control Optics: Optical system design and manufacturing
Lighting
All about fiber optics: Lucifer Lighting Companyfti - Fiberoptics Technology, Inc.
Fiberstars: Technology in Fiber Optic Lighting
Custom Glass Fabrication
Northwestern Industries Inc.
Glass (Optical Fibers):
A general Glass History: a great collection of "Web Links, Information, & Great Stuff on the Glass Industry."
Schott Glas - UK: an Application overview.
Fibre Optic Lighting & Sensing Technology Book: a general tutorial by Paul Timson & Barry Gregson - from Schott. Good on basics, but doesn't have much on telecommunications.
Fiber Optics Basics: by Terry Macy at Ohio University
Fiber Optic Communication Tutorials: a set of tutorials which emphasize cable configurations - from LASCOMM
Fibre Optic Technologies: from Mercury Communications Ltd
Inorganic Optical Materials:
Smart Optical Materials by Sol-Gel MethodOrganic Optical Materials:
Some background in important concepts in organic chemistry:
An extensive Glossary of Terms Used in Physical Organic Chemistry,Particle in a Box model of optical properties of weakly bound or delocalized electron in organic molecules (with animations).The Friends School Chemistry Homepage: A valuable minicourse from the Friends School of Baltimore. In the optical materials context, see in particular:
Chemical Bonding,
Hybridization Theory,
Lewis Dot Structures,Structure and Colour in Dyes from the Stains File
Organic and Molecular Electronic and Optical Materials and Devices, Cherie R. Kagan, IBM T. J. Watson Research Center.
Non-Linear Organic Optical Materials, from Japan's National Institute of Advanced Industrial
Science and Technology (AIST)
Liquid Crystals:
Center for Advanced Liquid Crystalline Optical Materials (ALCOM)
Photonic Band-Gap Materials
Photonic & Sonic Band-Gap Bibliography
- GES: Photonic Band Gap Material
Optoelectronics (Eli Yablonovitch) Group Home PageAli Serpengüzel's Photonic CrystalsPhoton Localization and Photonic Band Gap Materials: research of Sajeev John
Quantum Optics and Atom Optics Links
optics.org: Photonic Resources for Scientists and Engineers
SPIE -- International Society for Optical Engineering
ESO -- European Southern Observatory and AstroWeb databas
Institute of Optics, Rochester University
Alphabetical listing of laser and optics related websites
Oregon Center for Optics, University of Oregon
VRML Gallery of Electromagnetism by Rob Salgado of Syracuse University.
Teaching Electromagnetism Using Advanced Technologies by John W. Belcher of MIT.
Heriot-Watt University, Edinburgh, July 95.
Pulse-Enevlope Solitons on 2-d Lattices with in-plane displacements
Light Bullet Home Page:
created by Darran Edmundson and Richard Enns
of the Department of Physics at Simon
Fraser University.
Shallow Water Acoustics in a Random Media (SWARM): from the Woods Hole Ocean Acoustics Lab.
The All-Optical
Computer,
Science Fiction or Fact? See
in
particular Photons
Messengers of the future world?
OptoElectronic
Computing Group at UCSD