Scientific and industrial equipment, namely, systems for collecting, distributing, and guiding light energy comprised primarily of waveguides for light energy delivery, optical fibers, and optical switches; bioreactors for photosynthetic organism cell culturing; bioreactors for cell culturing for use in the production of nutraceutical preparations; systems for use in growing biomass comprising an illumination apparatus in the nature of optical fibers and waveguides for light energy delivery