Hospitality

Hotels, Restaurants, Bars and Night Clubs – fibre optics can be used to produce wonderful atmospheric lighting.

The mood of a restaurant can be altered by a subtle alteration in light colour. Clubs and Bars can have stunning effects in the evening which can be toned down for daytime clientele.

Fibre optics can produce exquisite effect lighting and highly controllable display lighting. It is ideal for use as functional lighting in serveries and around bar gantries due to its minuscule heat emission. It can make a focal point of any feature area.

There are a number of control options available including the industry standard DMX 512 and a range of end fittings to give the desired effect and to blend in with your décor.

Entertainment & Signage

Universal Fibre Optics are a major supplier of fibre optics for stage, film and television. We have worked with a number of companies from Warner Bros. Studios on the Harry Potter films, the BBC and major starcloth manufacturers to individual theatres and theatre companies to supply innovative fibre optic effect lighting.

We supply many stage lighting companies with the complete harnesses of raw fibre, light sources and accessories which are seen everyday in the media and on stage.

We also supply many sign makers with fibre optics for signs such as the example featured within this section. There are many effects available and being safe outside as well as inside and with low maintenance and reliability, fibre optics can provide an exciting solution.

Domestic Lighting

Our sister company, Unlimited Light sells kits suitable for domestic use which come with all the fibre optics you need to create exciting effect lighting in your home or garden. Complete with installation instructions, these kits offer superb value for money.

Sometimes a kit will not suit the area or precise effect desired. Universal Fibre Optics can offer custom sytems to suit a variety of domestic applications from wet area lighting in swimming pools, kitchens and bathrooms to star effect ceilings in living areas and bedrooms.

We can work with end users or their architects/designers. Scale drawings or a dimensional sketch will help us offer advice and for major projects we can visit the site.

Museum & Gallery Display Applications

Universal Fibre Optics are specialists in conservation lighting for museums and galleries. We have a range of original products including the unique hermetic fittings, light tubes and light wands and specialist cabinet mounting extrusions with articulated fittings.

With their extremely low heat and UV output, fibre optics will not damage delicate items on display making this technology ideal for lighting rare books and manuscripts, paintings, textiles and any other item prone to degradation by light. There is a choice of colour temperatures available and many light sources can be optionally made dimmable.

We work with museums, galleries or display case manufacturers to develop custom made systems to suit each installation.

Public Realm Lighting

Universal Fibre Optics works with local authorities, charities, artists, architects and designers to offer innovative solutions to lighting the public realm.

Ideal for indoor or outdoor use due to the ability to deliver light without using incandescent luminaries or LEDs, fibre optics provide the safe, replicable and low maintenance lighting solution to many public realm projects.

Applications can include in-ground and linear sideglow marker lights, walkway lighting, effect lighting for artworks and sculpture among many others. The limits are up to your imagination.

Lighting For Retail

Retail outlets can benefit greatly from the use of fibre optic lighting. Universal Fibre Optics works with major retail groups, shopfitters and interior designers to deliver high quality general and special effect lighting.

Fibre optic lighting can solve many of the common problems encountered with lighting of displays. Heat and UV content of the light is minimal and the lighting can be controlled to give accurate colour rendition or coloured or twinkling effects.

Ceiling features, wall washes, spotlighting, linear light line effects, illuminated garment rails and in-floor marker lights are all within the remit of fibre optics. If you have an idea, please call us and we will be happy to make it happen.

Wet Area Lighting

Fibre optics offer the safest method available for lighting wet areas. There is no scalding heat from the end fittings and electricity can be kept away from water and humid areas.

Pools, spa baths, saunas, fountains and garden water features can all benefit from being lit and with fibre optics you can offer another dimension with colour changing light. We have a range of end fittings specially designed for use underwater and side glow fibre can give a distinctive line of light which looks wonderful at night when used to outline the shape of a pool or water feature.

Systems can be supplied for inside or outside location of the light source.

Other Applications

Fibre optic lighting has so many applications, it is not easy to categorise them. In this section please find a few applications which illustrate the different types of projects this technology can be used in but the potential applications are without limit. Please call us to discuss how fibre optics can help you.

Universal Fibre Optics also makes fibre optics for...

• - Metrology and Machine Lighting
• - Light Guides
• - Forensic & Hazardous Area Inspection Light Guides
• - Marine Craft
• - Motor Vehicles
• - Aviation
• - Defence Applications
• - Signage
• ... and much more!