Applications

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

The mood of a restaurant can be changed by a subtle alteration in light color. Clubs and bars can have stunning effects in the evening, which can be toned down for daytime clientele.

Fiber 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 decor.

Universal Fiber Optics are a major supplier of fiber 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 theaters and theater companies to supply innovative fiber optic effect lighting.

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

We also supply many sign makers with fiber 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, fiber optics can provide an exciting solution.

Our sister company, Unlimited Light sells kits suitable for domestic use which come with all the fiber 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 Fiber 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.

Universal Fiber 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, fiber 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 color 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.

Universal Fiber 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, fiber 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. Your imagination is the only limit.

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

Fiber 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 color rendition, or colored 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 fiber optics. If you have an idea, please call us and we will be happy to make it happen.

Fiber 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 fiber optics you can offer another dimension with color changing light. We have a range of end fittings specially designed for use underwater, and side glow fiber 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.

Fiber optic lighting has so many applications, it is not easy to categorise them. This section describes 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 fiber optics can help you.

Universal Fiber Optics also makes fiber 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!