a Faraday Partnership
The Smart Optics Faraday Partnership supports research
and industry within our technology remit by:
• Developing a UK centre of expertise including industry and academia
• Strengthening industry competitiveness through adoption of technology
• Funding application-led programmes to advance relevant technologies
• Enabling industry-academic consortia to work towards common goals
• Training postgraduates for careers in UK industry
• Underpinning UK excellence in research and development in this strategic area
Our sponsor organisations are the Department of Trade and Industry (DTI), the
Particle Physics and Astronomy Research Council (PPARC) and the Engineering and
Physical Sciences Research Council (EPSRC).
Smart optics includes optical & photonic devices, systems, processes and
technologies exploitable in a wide range of globally important markets. Some
examples are:

for more information, please see
our website or contact:
Dr Steve Welch
UCL Centre for Advanced Instrumentation Systems
3-4, Taviton Street
London WC1H 0BT
Tel: 020 7679 4908
email: sjw@mssl.ucl.ac.uk
page last updated:
24 Sep 2008
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