MSc  - Industrial Projects

In the UK and elsewhere, optoelectronics and photonics play a major, and often increasing role.   We usually manage to place most of our students in a company for their project, though some may be hosted in a University. The following companies are amongst those who have recently hosted projects for our students. 

Edinburgh Instruments (Livingston)

Spectroscopic Instrumentation Development

BAE Systems (Bristol)
The testing and evaluation of a holographic switch for aerospace applications (seen alongside)
This free-space switch is capable of re-routing high-speed data, and was developed for
possible use in aerospace and telecommunications systems as part of the ROSES project. This project involved Thomas Swan & Co Ltd., CRL, BAE Systems, Nortel, Cambridge University and King's College London. It was part funded by the DTI. 

SELEX Galileo (Edinburgh)

Solid state laser and OPO development

BAE Systems (Great Baddow)

Adaptive Optics systems

Coherent Scotland (Glasgow)

Ultrashort laser pulse propagation

CNRS (Paris)

Ultrafast saturable absorbers

Elforlight (Daventry)
Compact high-power Nd lasers

National Physical Laboratory (London)

Optical frequency comb generation

Terahertz Spectrometer

Point Source (Winchester)
Beam pointing stability of laser diodes

Ninewells Hospital (Dundee)

Photobiological studies of drugs

Rutherford Appleton Laboratory (Didcot)
Experimental studies of adapative optic elements for laser systems

Sharp Laboratories (Oxford)
Fabrication of non-absorbing mirrors for high power laser diodes

ST Microelectronics (Edinburgh)
Evaluating miniature optics for mobile phone applications

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