UA's Optical
Sciences is recognized nationally and internationally for its
innovative and unusually comprehensive research programs and for its
state-of-the-art laboratories. Research
encompasses a broad set of technologies and techniques for exploiting the
properties and applications of light and touches virtually every field of
science and all modern industries. Optical Sciences is unique in that
nearly all research is sponsored: funded by contracts from industry
or governmental agencies. Faculty members partner with
scientists, researchers, engineers and administrators from industry,
government and academia to conduct the leading-edge research that powers
the future of the world's high-technology industries. |