Hecht J. Optics: Light for a New Age

Laser Light Press, Auburndale, MA, USA, 2015. — 174 p. — ISBN13: 978-1511524285.Written for secondary and advanced middle school students, Optics describes light, the human eye and vision, lasers and other light sources, light detection, optical instruments, cameras, television, fiber optic communications, light and life, and other uses of light and optics.Optics and Light
What Light Is and Does
Simple Optics and How They Work
The Eye and How It Works
Sources of Light
Light Detection and Robot Vision
Invisible Light: The Infrared and the Ultraviolet
Seeing Better: Optical Instruments
Making Pictures: Cameras and Television
Guiding Light: Fiber Optics and Optical Communications
Light and Life
Reading and Writing with Light
Light at Work
Ray Guns and Reality: Light at War
Lighting Up the Future