The Australian and New Zealand Optical Society (ANZOS) is a non-profit organisation for the advancement of optics in Australia & New Zealand. The society was formed in 1983 for this purpose. The Society embraces anyone contributing to or interested in optics in the widest sense.

The Australian Optical Society was established too:

• To provide a forum for persons involved in or in any way interested in optics.
• To strengthen the teaching of optics in Australia & New Zealand
• To promote research in and other activities in optics in all its diversity
• To foster closer collaboration in optics both nationally and internationally