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                                                                   Exhibit 10.30

                                                          PRIVATE & CONFIDENTIAL

                    PRINCIPAL STATEMENT OF TERMS & CONDITIONS

  THIS DOCUMENT IS YOUR PRINCIPAL STATEMENT OF TERMS & CONDITIONS WITH BOOKHAM
  TECHNOLOGY PLC (THE COMPANY) AND SUPERSEDES ANY PREVIOUS EMPLOYMENT CONTRACT
                               WITH THE COMPANY.

Name of Employee             STEVE TURLEY

Job Title                    CHIEF SALES AND MARKETING OFFICER

Contract Type                PERMANENT

Date of Issue                WEDNESDAY, 1 AUGUST 2001

START DATE

Your contract with the Company will commence on a date to be confirmed.

For statutory purposes, your period of continuous employment with the Company is
from a date to be confirmed.

THIS OFFER OF EMPLOYMENT IS SUBJECT TO

   -   The receipt of satisfactory references

   -   Proof of your right to work in the United Kingdom i.e. P45 or last
       payslip showing your National Insurance Number

   -   or the issue of any necessary work permit or visa.

HOURS OF WORK

Your basic working week will be 40 hours, spread over five days, Monday to
Friday, 9.00 am to 5.30 pm with half hour for lunch which will be unpaid.
Managers have discretion to agree variations to this.

JOB RESPONSIBILITIES

Your duties and responsibilities will be as outlined by your manager, and
further explained to you when you commence employment with the Company, along
with work objectives.

PAYMENT OF SALARY

Your starting salary will be L 150000 per annum. Your salary will be paid
monthly in arrears into your nominated bank account on or around the 24th of
each month.

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The Company reserves the right to deduct from your salary or expenses any monies
owed by you to the Company. Wherever possible we would aim to discuss any such
deductions with you in advance. The Company also reserves the right to deduct a
day's pay for each day of unauthorised absence, including leaving our employment
without notice.

REPORTING

In this position you will report to Giorgio Anania.

LOCATION

Initially, your operating base will be Unit 90 Milton Park, and you may be
requested to work at various locations as required by the Company. The Company
may require you to permanently change your place of work, as is deemed necessary
for the business. The Company will endeavour to give you as much notice as
possible of any necessary move. If the new location requires you to relocate,
then you may be eligible to receive financial assistance under the Company
Relocation Policy.

You will not be required to work outside the United Kingdom for a period in
excess of 30 consecutive days.

RELOCATION ALLOWANCE

You are eligible for relocation at a rate of L 8000 in accordance with the
Company Relocation Policy. Reimbursement of relocation expenses is conditional
upon you remaining in The Company's service for at least 24 months after the
date of the start of the relocation process. If you leave The Company within 24
months of the process starting, The Company will reclaim monies paid and will be
entitled to offset any payments due to you on termination against the whole or
part of the debt.

BONUS SCHEME

As a member of the senior management team, you will participate in The Company's
non-contractual bonus scheme. Your individual bonus is targeted to pay up to 50%
of basic salary pro-rated for your service during a scheme year.

CAR ALLOWANCE

The Company will also offer you a car allowance of L 12000 p.a. plus
reimbursement against receipts for fuel, subject to your holding a full current
driving licence.

MEDICAL INSURANCE SCHEME

The Company has an arrangement with a private insurance company to provide you
with free medical cover. You will be eligible and may elect to join the scheme,
which covers you, your spouse or partner and dependent children up to the age of
21 (or 25 if in full time education), from your date of entry into the company.
You will be personally liable for any income tax in respect of the provision of
this benefit.

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LIFE ASSURANCE PROVISIONS

You will be eligible to participate in the Group Life Assurance Scheme, which is
noncontributory. The scheme provides for a death in-service benefit of four
times your salary to be paid tax free to your nominated beneficiary/ies. The
cover expires when you reach the normal retirement age of 60, you retire early
or you leave the company's employment. There are no tax implications for this
benefit.

PERMANENT HEALTH ASSURANCE

Whilst employed by The Company you will be automatically covered in those
circumstances where, due to illness or injury, you become permanently
incapacitated. If your incapacity qualifies under the scheme arrangements you
will receive 75% of your salary until the normal retirement age of 60. The
scheme is non-contributory with no tax implications for this benefit.

RETIREMENT AGE

The normal retirement age of Company employees is 60.

BOOKHAM TECHNOLOGY GROUP PENSION SCHEME

You are eligible to join this Company sponsored money-purchase scheme, provided
by Scottish Equitable, immediately on commencing employment. You may opt to
contribute between 2% and 15% of your base salary and the Company will match
your contributions and then add a further 3% up to a total company contribution
ceiling of 9%. Employee contributions receive income tax relief at source.

Medical insurance, permanent health insurance and life assurance benefits are
provided whether or not you join the pension scheme.

SHARE OPTIONS

You will be granted 400000 Company Stock Options, the price of which will be
ratified by the Board at their next meeting following your commencement of
employment. These options will vest over 42 months (with one-third vesting after
18 months, one-third after a further 12 months and the remainder after a further
12 months).

HOLIDAYS

The holiday year runs from lst January to 3lst December based on calendar
months. Your paid holiday entitlement is 23 days per annum, pro-rata to the
period of the contract, to be taken in agreement with your manager. The Company
reserves the right to require you to use three days holiday for the Christmas
shutdown period.

On leaving the Company, payment will be made in lieu of any unused holiday
entitlement, calculated on a pro-rata basis and based on basic salary, plus
shift allowance. If on termination of your employment with the Company you have
exceeded your accrued holiday entitlement, the

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Company reserves the right to deduct the excess from any sums due to you,
including payment of salary.

BANK HOLIDAY

In addition, you are entitled to the statutory English bank holidays which fall
during normal working time during the contract period. Given the nature of the
work, it may, on occasions, be necessary for you to work on public holidays.

HEALTH & SAFETY

The Company strives to operate and maintain a safe working environment and safe
systems at work. You are legally required to adhere to the Company and general
workplace Health and Safety policies and procedures, and to take reasonable care
for the safety of yourself and others. Any breach of such policies could leave
you liable to criminal, civil or disciplinary action. Health and safety
responsibilities will be outlined to you during your induction.

SICKNESS ABSENCE

In order to protect your earnings during unavoidable absence due to illness or
injury, you are eligible to receive Company sick pay comprising one month at
full salary and one month at half salary in any 12-month period provided you
comply with notification requirements. These periods may be extended at
Management discretion. You should notify your manager by your usual starting
time if you are too ill to come to work.

For absences of less than seven days (including Saturday and Sunday) you are
required to complete a self-certification form, which can be obtained from the
HR Department. For absences of more than seven days (including Saturday and
Sunday), you are required to provide a doctor's certificate.

EXPENSES

The Company will refund to you out of pocket expenses, which will include
reasonable travelling, entertainment and other expenses properly incurred by you
in and about the course of your work. Claims for reimbursement must make clear
the nature of the expense incurred and be supported by evidence of expenditure.

PAY PROGRESSION

Your salary will be reviewed on an individual basis. Pay progression is linked
to performance reviews.

TAX OFFICE

The Tax Office which deals with this company is: Cardiff 3 - Ref No: 075/B870

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OVERPAYMENTS AND UNDERPAYMENTS

The Company endeavours to ensure wages are paid into your account correctly. If
you receive an underpayment or overpayment, you have an obligation to
immediately notify the Payroll Department. In the event of an overpayment,
monies will be deducted from your next salary payment, your final salary payment
or by installments as agreed with Payroll and the HR Department.

POLICIES AND PROCEDURES

The Company has a range of policies and procedures with which you are expected
to familiarise yourself and adhere to. These cover a variety of topics, e.g.
quality standards, computer use and general conduct. The Company will
communicate new standards to you either through the line, at 'Quality Points' or
by email/letter. Any breach of the Company's policies and procedures may result
in disciplinary action being taken in accordance with the Disciplinary Policy.

CONFIDENTIALITY

For the period of your employment with The Company (except in the proper course
of your duties) you are required at all times to keep confidential and not
disclose to any third party, any matters whatsoever which come to your knowledge
concerning any business affairs or trade secrets of The Company, its suppliers
or customers.

This undertaking remains effective after your employment with the Company has
terminated. You are also required to return to the Company prior to your
departure any copies of records or notes containing confidential information
held by you either in writing or recorded electronically.

GRIEVANCE AND DISCIPLINE

If you breach The Company's policies and procedures or fail to attain an
acceptable standard of conduct, you will be subject to the Company's
non-contractual and discretionary Disciplinary Policy and Procedures.

The Company also has a Grievance Procedure that should be followed if you have a
grievance.

INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY

Any inventions, creative writings or designs or copyright material created by
you as part of your normal employment with The Company will be considered to
have been made by and on behalf of The Company exclusively and shall belong to
The Company exclusively, and you agree to assign all rights in them to The
Company.

The Company will be exclusively entitled to apply for patents or other design
protection and/or trade marks, and you agree to sign all papers which The
Company may consider necessary in connection with such invention, design or
copyright material.

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DECLARATION OF INTEREST

You are required to declare any personal or family interest in matters of
official business e.g. any contract for goods or services, any employment or
promotion by the Company, any interest in other companies or organisations which
might affect, or might reasonably be interpreted as affecting impartial
judgement.

RESTRICTIONS ON WORK OUTSIDE BOOKHAM TECHNOLOGY PLC

During the period of your employment with the Company you are expected to afford
priority to your job. As a result, you may not be employed by, or carry out, any
work for any other body which conflicts with or hinders your ability to carry
out your work satisfactorily, without the written permission of the appropriate
manager within your work location.

USE OF EMAIL, INTERNET AND INTRANET

You must adhere to Company Policy regarding the use of Email, Internet and
Intranet as published from time to time.

CHANGE OF PERSONAL CIRCUMSTANCES

It is very important that you inform the HR Department of any changes to your
personal circumstances, i.e. change of address, telephone number, next of kin,
etc.

AMENDMENTS TO CONTRACT

Any relevant changes to pay or conditions of service will be incorporated into
your contract and you will be notified in writing of any such amendment.

COLLECTIVE AGREEMENTS

There are no collective agreements affecting your employment with the Company.

NOTICE PERIODS

(a)    NOTICE BY THE COMPANY TO YOU

       On commencement of employment you will be entitled to receive from the
       Company 18 months' notice of termination for "no just cause" (ie.
       termination in circumstances other than those specified at (c) below).
       This notice period will decrease on a monthly basis by one month for each
       calendar month worked until you have worked for the Company continuously
       for 14 months.

       Once you have worked continuously for the Company for 14 months your
       notice period will become and will thereafter remain at four months (or
       the statutory minimum whichever is the greater).

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(b)    NOTICE BY YOU TO THE COMPANY

       You will be required to give four months' notice of your resignation from
       the Company.

       Notice must be given in writing to your manager.

(c)    TERMINATION IN OTHER CIRCUMSTANCES

       Your contract may be terminated by the Company without notice in case of
       just cause" ie. gross misconduct or breach of contract in accordance with
       the Company's Disciplinary Procedure.

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We hope that you are able to accept this offer of appointment on the terms and
conditions detailed above. Please confirm your acceptance of this offer by
signing and dating the attached copy of this statement of terms and conditions
and returning it to me within one week of receipt.

Signed /s/ Giorgio Anania  Dated WEDNESDAY, 1 AUGUST 2001
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GIORGIO ANANIA, PRESIDENT AND CEO

On behalf of Bookham Technology plc.

ACCEPTANCE

1.     I accept the appointment referred to in the terms and conditions set out
       in this Principal Statement of Terms and Conditions of employment

2.     In accordance with the 1998 Data Protection Act it is agreed that Bookham
       Technology may hold and use personal information about me for personnel
       reasons and to enable Bookham Technology plc to keep in touch with me.
       This information can be sorted in both manual or computer form, including
       the data in Section 2 of the Data Protection Act 1998.

Signed  /s/ Stephen Turley                 Date  15 August 2001
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STEVE TURLEY

I confirm that I

/ /    will be available to start work on Monday __/__/____

       or

/X/    will advise you as soon as possible on my earliest preferred date e.g.
       once this has been agreed by my current employer. (You need not delay
       acceptance of this offer if this is likely to take some time).

       or

/ /    will be available to start once I possess valid Work Permit or other
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                                                                   Exhibit 10.31

                             CONTRACT OF EMPLOYMENT

This Agreement is dated the 9th day of November 2002.

BETWEEN:

(1)      BOOKHAM TECHNOLOGY PLC whose registered office is at 90 Milton Park,
         Abingdon, Oxfordshire OX14 4RY (the "Company"); and

(2)      Michael Scott.

1.       JOB TITLE AND DUTIES

1.1.     You will be employed as a Chief Technology Officer, reporting to Chief
         Executive Officer or such other person as the Company may from time to
         time determine ("your Manager").

1.2.     You may however be required to carry out such alternative or additional
         duties as the Company may require from time to time and you agree that
         you may be seconded to work for one or more Group Companies at any
         time.

1.3.     You agree to faithfully and diligently perform your duties to the best
         of your ability and use your best endeavours to promote the interests
         of the Company and any Group Companies for whom you are required to
         work.

2.       OUTSIDE INTERESTS

2.1.     You agree that during your employment you will not be employed,
         engaged, interested or concerned in any trade, business, firm, company
         or organisation without the prior written consent of your Manager. You
         may, however, hold (directly or through nominees including your spouse,
         partner or minor children) by way of bona fide personal investment up
         to 3% of the issued shares, debentures or other securities of any
         company whose shares are listed on a recognised investment exchange or
         dealt in the Alternative Investment Market.

2.2.     During your employment you will, and will procure that your spouse and
         minor children will comply with all applicable rules of law, any
         recognised investment exchange regulations or any Company policy, code
         or regulations in relation to dealings in shares, debentures or other
         securities of the Company and any Group Company or relating to any
         unpublished price sensitive information affecting the securities of the
         Company, any Group Company or any other company.

3.       FREEDOM TO TAKE UP EMPLOYMENT WITH THE COMPANY

You warrant that any notice period you are required to give or to serve with a
previous employer has expired and that, by entering into this contract or
performing any of your duties for the Company, you will not be in breach of any
other contract, agreement or obligation binding on you.

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4.       PERIOD OF CONTINUOUS EMPLOYMENT:

Your employment will commence upon the issue of a valid work permit and will be
for the fixed term of eighteen months. No employment with a previous employer
counts as part of your period of continuous employment with the Company.

5.       CONDITIONS OF EMPLOYMENT

5.1.     Your employment with the Company is conditional on:

         (a)      your producing such documentation as the Company may
                  reasonably require to establish your right to work lawfully in
                  the United Kingdom, USA, Canada and Switzerland.

5.2.     Should you fail to comply with either of these conditions, any offer of
         employment by the Company may be withdrawn without notice and if
         already accepted, the Company may terminate your employment
         (notwithstanding any other term of this Agreement) without notice or a
         payment in lieu of notice during the first month of employment or
         thereafter by giving you the minimum period of notice required by
         statute.

6.       TERM

6.1.     Your employment will terminate, automatically and without the need for
         notice, eighteen months from the date of commencement.

6.2.     Subject to the remainder of this clause 6, your employment may be
         terminated by the Company giving to you three months written notice.

6.3.     You may terminate your employment at any time by giving to the Company
         not less than three months notice in writing.

6.4.     Notwithstanding any other term of this Agreement, the Company may
         terminate your employment without notice and without any payment in
         lieu of notice in the event that you are guilty of gross misconduct,
         gross negligence or breach a fundamental term of this Agreement.

6.5.     The Company may in its absolute discretion choose to terminate your
         employment immediately at any time and make you a payment in lieu of
         notice equivalent to your basic salary over any unexpired period of
         notice due under clause 6 of this Agreement, subject to deductions for
         income tax, employee's national insurance contributions and other
         deductions required by law. The Company is not under an obligation to
         make a payment in lieu of notice and if it fails to do so any claim you
         have will be for damages and will be subject to your duty to take
         reasonable steps to mitigate your loss.

7.       PLACE OF WORK

7.1.     Your normal place of work will initially be Ottawa, Canada. You agree
         that the Company may change your normal place of work, temporarily or
         permanently, to

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         anywhere within the United Kingdom, even if this requires you to
         relocate your home. If you are required to move your home, the Company
         will consider relocation assistance.

7.2.     You may be required to travel and undertake your duties anywhere in the
         world.

8.       SALARY

8.1.     You will be paid a basic salary at a rate of L 158,000 (One hundred and
         fifty eight thousand pounds) per annum, subject to deductions for
         income tax, employee's national insurance contributions and any other
         deductions required or permitted by law. Your salary will accrue on a
         day-to-day basis and will be payable monthly in arrears on or about the
         24th day of each month. Your salary is paid in respect of your duties
         both for the Company and any other Group Company for whom you are
         required to work.

9.       EXPENSES

You will be reimbursed for all expenses reasonably and properly incurred by you
on the business of the Company or the Group provided you produce to the Company
such receipts, voucher or other evidence of actual payment of the expenses
concerned as the Company may reasonably require from time to time.

10.      PENSION AND OTHER BENEFITS

11.      BONUS. As a member of the senior management team, you will participate
         in the Company's non-contractual bonus scheme. Your individual bonus is
         targeted to pay up to 50% of basic salary pro-related for your service
         during a scheme year. As the bonus is intended to incentivise employees
         to remain in the employment of the Company, payment of any bonus is
         conditional on your remaining in the employment of the Company and not
         having given to the Company or been given by the Company notice to
         terminate your employment as at the date bonus is payable to you under
         the scheme rules. Bonuses are subject to deductions for income tax,
         employee's national insurance contributions and other deductions
         required by law.

11.1.    PENSION. You are entitled to become a member of the Company's
         money-purchase pension scheme subject to and in accordance with the
         rules thereof. You may contribute between 2% and 15% of your basic
         annual salary each year to the scheme. Subject to Inland Revenue rules
         and the rules of the scheme in force from time to time (which the
         Company may vary in its discretion), the Company will match your
         personal contribution to the scheme each year and make an additional
         Company contribution to the scheme for your benefit equivalent to 3% of
         your basic annual salary each year provided that the Company's maximum
         annual contribution to the scheme for your benefit shall be 9% of your
         basic annual salary. The Company reserves the right to withdraw this
         benefit at any time or to vary the rules applicable to the scheme or
         the level of Company contributions to the scheme.

11.2.    CAR ALLOWANCE. The Company will also offer you a car allowance of L
         12,000 p.a. plus reimbursement against receipts for fuel, subject to
         your holding a full current driving

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         licence. When visiting the UK for business purposes, the Company will
         re-imburse expenses for car rental as required.

11.3.    PRIVATE MEDICAL EXPENSES INSURANCE. The Company shall bear the cost of
         membership for you, your spouse or partner and children (up to the age
         of 21 or 25 if in full time education) of a private medical insurance
         scheme with such reputable medical expenses insurance provider as the
         Company shall determine from time to time, subject to the Company being
         able to secure such cover at rates which it determines to be
         reasonable. The Company reserves the right to withdraw this benefit at
         any time or to vary the terms or level of cover at any time. This is a
         benefit in respect of which you will be liable to pay income tax.

11.4.    PERMANENT HEALTH INSURANCE. The Company shall bear the cost of
         permanent health insurance cover for you subject to and in accordance
         with the rules and terms of such insurance scheme as may be in force
         from time to time. The Company reserves the right to withdraw this
         benefit at any time or to vary the terms or level of benefits provided
         by this cover at any time.

11.5.    LIFE ASSURANCE. The Company shall bear the cost of membership of an
         Inland Revenue approved life assurance scheme for you, subject to and
         in accordance with the rules and terms of such life assurance scheme as
         may be in force from time to time. This scheme provides benefits on
         death in service of 4 times your basic annual salary, which is paid in
         accordance with the rules of the scheme in force. The Company reserves
         the right to withdraw this benefit at any time or to vary the terms or
         level of cover at any time.

12.      HOURS OF WORK

12.1.    Your normal office hours are 9:00am to 5.30pm Monday to Friday, with a
         lunch break each working day of half an hour. The Company may require
         you to work such additional hours as the Company may determine to be
         necessary for the proper and efficient performance of your duties. You
         shall not be entitled to any overtime or other payments in relation to
         such additional hours. You agree that the limit on average weekly
         working time set out in Regulation 4(1) of the Working Time Regulations
         1998 will not apply to you, although you may withdraw your consent on
         giving the Company three months prior written notice.

13.      HOLIDAYS

13.1.    The Company's holiday year runs from 1 January to 31 December.

13.2.    You are entitled to 25 days paid holiday entitlement in each holiday
         year in addition to Canadian public holidays. You are required to save
         three days holiday each year which shall be taken by you on such days
         over the Christmas period as the Company may determine, unless you are
         notified otherwise by the Board in any year.

13.3.    All holiday must be taken at times authorised by your Manager at least
         two weeks in advance. For the avoidance of doubt Regulations 15(1) to
         15(4) of the Working Time

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         Regulations 1998 (dealing with dates when leave is taken) will not
         apply to your employment.

13.4.    You may not, save with the prior permission of your Manager, carry
         forward any unused part of your holiday entitlement for a given holiday
         year into the subsequent holiday year.

13.5.    For the holiday year during which your employment commences or
         terminates, your holiday entitlement will be calculated on a pro rata
         basis according to the number of weeks of completed service in such
         year.

13.6.    On the termination of your employment with the Company, the Company may
         at its discretion:

         (a)      require you to take, during your notice period, any or all
                  holiday entitlement which will have accrued to you by the date
                  on which your employment terminates; or

         (b)      pay you in lieu of your accrued but unused holiday
                  entitlement, save that, if you are dismissed summarily for
                  gross misconduct, the Company shall be under no obligation to
                  pay you in respect of accrued but untaken holiday entitlement
                  in excess of any minimum holiday entitlement required by law.
                  All pay in lieu of holiday entitlement will be subject to
                  deductions for income tax, employee's national insurance
                  contributions and other deductions required by law; or

         (c)      deduct an amount equal to salary paid to you in respect of
                  holiday taken by you but not accrued by the date on which your
                  employment terminates from any salary or payment in lieu of
                  notice due to you or, in the event that this is insufficient,
                  require you to repay such an amount to the Company.

14.      DEDUCTIONS FROM WAGES

Without prejudice to any other rights open to the Company, you agree that the
Company may deduct from any wages due to you, (including Company sick pay and
any payment in lieu of notice or holiday entitlement) sums representing the
value of any Company property lost by you; the cost of repairing any Company
property damaged by you or damaged as a consequence of negligence on your part;
the amount of any outstanding loans or advances made to you by the Company; any
other sums owing from you to the Company; where you have been unable to perform
your duties under this Agreement due to an accident caused by a third party, an
amount equal to the amount of any damages you recover from a third party in
respect of that accident capped at an amount equal to the salary and benefits
you have received from the Company in respect of any period of absence to which
the damages relate; any overpayment of salary or expenses or payment made to you
by mistake or through misrepresentation; and any other sums authorised to be
deducted by Section 13 of the Employment Rights Act 1996.

15.      DATA PROTECTION

In order to keep and maintain any records relating to your employment under this
Agreement, it will be necessary for the Company to record, keep and process
personal data relating to you on

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computer and in hard copy form. (Examples of personal data include details of
your disciplinary record, any grievances raised by you and the contents of your
personnel file, together with any sensitive personal data held by the Company
such as your religious beliefs, your ethnic or racial origin and information
relating to any physical disability or pregnancy). Further in order to pay your
salary and offer you the other benefits to which you may be entitled, the
Company may also need to obtain from you details of your bank account and other
financial information. To the extent that it is reasonably necessary in
connection with your employment and the Company's responsibilities as an
employer, this data may be disclosed to others, including other employees of the
Company or any Group Company, the Company's professional advisers, the Inland
Revenue or other taxation authority, the police and other regulatory
authorities. You hereby consent to the recording, processing, use and disclosure
by the Company of personal data relating to you as set out above, including the
recording, processing, use and disclosure of your sensitive personal data to the
extent required by reason of your employment or by law and the transmission of
such data within or outside the European Union.

16.      SICKNESS OR INJURY

16.1.    If you are absent from work due to sickness, injury or accident you
         must notify the Company as soon as possible and in any event before
         10.00 am on the first working day of absence.

16.2.    If you are absent from work for less than 7 days you must complete a
         self-certification form setting out the nature of your illness or
         incapacity on your return to work. If your absence continues for more
         than 7 days you will, on the eighth day of such absence, submit a
         doctor's certificate to the Company and continue to submit promptly to
         the Company doctor's certificates covering any further period of
         absence.

16.3.    Provided you comply with the notification and certification procedure
         set out above, the Company will pay you during such absence the Company
         will pay your normal basic salary for up to one consecutive calendar
         month of absence in a calendar year, and then pay you half your normal
         basic salary for up to two further consecutive calendar months during a
         calendar year.

         Thereafter, any Company sick pay is entirely at the discretion of the
         Company, provided that you shall be entitled to statutory sick pay in
         accordance with the rules of the statutory sick pay scheme, subject to
         the Company's right to terminate your employment under this Agreement.

16.4.    Failure to comply with the certification requirements set out above may
         result in your forfeiting your entitlement to be paid during periods of
         absence and in your facing disciplinary action.

16.5.    Any Company sick pay shall include any statutory sick pay payable to
         you under the prevailing rules of the statutory sick pay scheme. The
         Company may deduct from Company sick pay an amount or amounts equal to
         any state benefit to which you are entitled or any payments made to you
         or for which you are eligible under any permanent health insurance
         scheme.

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16.6.    The Company reserves the right to require you to undergo a medical
         examination by the Company's doctor or an independent medical
         practitioner at any time during a period of absence. You agree that the
         doctor or independent medical practitioner may disclose to the Company
         the results of the examination and discuss with the Company and its
         professional advisers any matters arising from the examination as might
         impair you from properly discharging your duties. You also authorise
         your own doctor to provide the Company's doctor and/or independent
         medical practitioner with any relevant extracts from your medical
         notes.

16.7.    Whilst working on overseas assignments, the Company expects you to
         comply with the sickness policies and procedures practised in the local
         office at which you are based.

17.      CONFIDENTIALITY

17.1.    During the course of your employment you will have access to and become
         aware of information which is confidential to the Company. You
         undertake that you will not, save in the proper performance of your
         duties for the Company, disclose to any person, firm, company or
         organisation or use (whether for your own benefit or for the benefit of
         any person, firm, company or organisation) any of the trade secrets or
         other confidential information of or relating to (a) the Company; (b)
         any Group Company; (c) any client or customer of the Company; (d) any
         person, firm, company or organisation with whom or which the Company is
         involved in any kind of business venture or partnership; or (e) any
         other third party to which the Company or any Group Company owes a duty
         or confidentiality. Further, you agree use your best endeavours to
         prevent the unauthorised publication or disclosure of any such trade
         secrets or confidential information.

17.2.    The restriction in clause 17.1 shall continue to apply after the
         termination of your employment without limit in point of time, but
         shall cease to apply to information ordered to be disclosed by a Court
         or Tribunal of competent jurisdiction or to information which becomes
         available to the public generally (other than by reason of your
         breaching this clause). Nothing in this clause 17 will prevent you
         making a "protected disclosure" within the meaning of the Public
         Interest Disclosure Act 1998.

17.3.    For the purposes of this Agreement confidential information shall
         include, but shall not be limited to:

         (a)      corporate and marketing strategy and plans and business
                  development plans;

         (b)      budgets, management accounts, bank account details and other
                  confidential financial data;

         (c)      business sales and marketing methods;

         (d)      all techniques and processes used in relation to products and
                  services;

         (e)      details of products and services being developed, including
                  research and development reports, details of the Company's
                  computer technology, applications and systems, computer code
                  and algorithms developed or used, information

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                  relating to proprietary computer hardware or software
                  (including updates) and details of intellectual property
                  solutions;

         (f)      methods, procedures and information relating to the operation
                  of its business, including details of salaries, bonuses,
                  commissions and other employment terms applicable;

         (g)      the names, addresses and contact details of any customers or
                  Prospective Customers, including customer lists in whatever
                  medium this information is stored and details in relation to
                  the requirements of those customers or the potential
                  requirements of Prospective Customers for any products or
                  services. Without prejudice to the generality of the
                  foregoing, information provided by visitors to and users of
                  any of its web sites;

         (h)      the terms of business with its advertisers, customers and
                  suppliers, including any pricing policy adopted and the terms
                  of any partnership, joint venture or other form of commercial
                  co-operation or agreement entered into with any third party;

         (i)      software and technical information necessary for the
                  development, maintenance or operation of any of any website
                  and the source and object code of each website; and

         (j)      any other information in respect of which it is bound by an
                  obligation of confidence owed to a third party.

17.4.    Your undertaking to the Company in clause 17.1 is given to the Company
         for itself and as trustee for each Group Company.

18.      DELIVERY UP OF THE COMPANY'S PROPERTY

18.1.    You may not save in the proper performance of your duties or with the
         Company's permission, remove any property belonging to the Company or
         any Group Company, or relating to the affairs of the Company or any
         Group Company, from the Company's or any Group Company's premises, or
         make any copies of documents or records relating to the Company's or
         any Group Company's affairs.

18.2.    Upon the Company's request at any time, and in any event on the
         termination of your employment, you will immediately deliver up to the
         Company or its authorised representative, any plans, keys, mobile
         telephone, security passes, credit cards, customer lists, price lists,
         equipment, documents, records, papers, computer disks, tapes or other
         computer hardware or software (together with all copies of the same),
         and all property of whatever nature in your possession or control which
         belongs to the Company or any Group Company or relates to its or their
         business affairs. You will at the Company's request furnish the Company
         with a written statement confirming that you have complied with this
         obligation.

18.3.    If you have any information relating to the Company or the Group or
         work you have carried out for the Company or

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         any Group Company which is stored on a computer or laptop computer
         which computer or lap top does not belong to the Company, this must be
         disclosed to the Company and the Company shall be entitled to down load
         the information and/or supervise its deletion from the computer or
         laptop concerned.

19.      COPYRIGHT AND DESIGN RIGHTS

19.1.    You will promptly disclose to the Company all works in which copyright
         or design rights may exist which you make or originate either by
         yourself or jointly with other people during your employment.

19.2.    Any copyright work or design created by you in the normal course of
         your employment or in the course of carrying out duties specifically
         assigned to you, which relate to the affairs of the Company, shall be
         the property of the Company whether or not the work was made at the
         direction of the Company, or was intended for the Company and the
         copyright in it and the rights in any design shall belong absolutely to
         the Company throughout all jurisdictions and in all parts of the world,
         together with all rights of registration, extensions and renewal (where
         relevant).

19.3.    To the extent that such copyright or design rights are not otherwise
         vested in the Company, you hereby assign the same to the Company,
         together with all past and future rights to action relating thereto.

19.4.    You recognise and accept that the Company may edit, copy, add to, take
         from, adapt, alter and translate the product of your services in
         exercising the rights assigned under clause 19.3.

19.5.    To the full extent permitted by law, you irrevocably and
         unconditionally waive any provision of law known as "moral rights"
         including any moral rights you may otherwise have under sections 77 to
         85 inclusive of the Copyright Designs and Patents Act 1988 in relation
         to the rights referred to at clause 19.2.

19.6.    You agree that you will at the Company's request and expense, execute
         such further documents or deeds and do all things necessary or
         reasonably required to confirm and substantiate the rights of the
         Company under this clause 19 and despite the termination of this
         Agreement for any reason.

19.7.    You agree that you will not at any time make use of or exploit the
         Company's property, trade marks, service marks, documents or materials
         in which the Company owns the copyright or the design rights for any
         purpose which has not been authorised by the Company.

20.      INVENTIONS

20.1.    It shall be part of your normal duties at all times to consider in what
         manner and by what new methods or devices, products, services,
         processes, equipment or systems of the Company and each Group Company
         might be improved, and promptly to give to the Board full details of
         any invention, discovery, design, improvement or other matter or work
         whatsoever in relation thereto ("the Inventions") which you may from
         time to time

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         make or discover during your employment, and to further the interests
         of the Company in relation to the same. You hereby acknowledge and
         agree that the sole ownership of the Inventions and all proprietary
         rights therein discovered or made by you (whether alone or jointly with
         others) at any time during your employment shall (subject to any
         contrary provisions of the Patents Act 1977 and the Copyright Designs
         and Patents Act 1988 and to any rights of a joint inventor thereof)
         belong free of charge and exclusively to the Company as it may direct.

20.2.    All worldwide copyright and design rights in all the Inventions shall
         be and remain the property of the Company and the provisions of clause
         19 above shall apply in relation to the same.

20.3.    You agree that you will, at any time during your employment or
         thereafter, at the Company's expense, do all such acts and things and
         execute such documents (including without limitation making application
         for letters patent) as the Company may reasonably request in order to
         vest effectually any Invention (whether owned by the Company in
         accordance with this clause 20 or owned by you) and any protection as
         to ownership or use (in any part of the world) of the same, in the
         Company or any Group Company, or as the Company may direct, jointly if
         necessary with any joint inventor thereof, and you hereby irrevocably
         appoint the Company for these purposes to be your attorney in your name
         and on your behalf to execute such acts and things and execute any such
         documents as set out above.

20.4.    You agree that you will not knowingly do or omit to do anything which
         will or may have the result of imperilling any such protection
         aforesaid or any application for such protection.

21.      GARDEN LEAVE

The Company shall be under no obligation to provide you with work during any
period of notice to terminate your employment (or any part thereof), whether
given by the Company or by you. During such period the Company may require you:
(a) to carry out different duties from your normal duties, whether or not this
occasions a loss of status; (b) to cease carrying out your duties altogether;
(c) not to attend work and may exclude you from any premises of the Company or
any Group Company; and/or (d) not to have any business dealings or contact with
the Company's employees, suppliers, advertisers, customers, Prospective
Customers and agents. You will continue to receive your salary and all
contractual benefits provided by your employment. During such period of notice,
you may not be engaged or employed by or take up any office in any other
company, firm, business or organisation or trade on your own account or enter
into any partnership without the prior written permission of the Board.

22.      SUSPENSION

The Company may at any time suspend you on full pay pending the outcome of a
disciplinary investigation or for health reasons. Whilst you are suspended, the
Company may impose the same conditions as apply to garden leave under clause 21
above.

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23.      RESTRICTIONS AFTER TERMINATION OF EMPLOYMENT

23.1.    You agree that you will not, without the prior written permission of
         the Board, during your employment or for a period of 6 months following
         the termination of your employment (less any period you spend on garden
         leave pursuant to clause 21), whether on your own behalf or on behalf
         of any individual, company, firm, business or other organisation,
         directly or indirectly:

         (a)      in connection with the carrying on of any business which
                  competes with any business of the Company or any Group Company
                  with which business you were involved in the period of 12
                  months prior to the termination of your employment, solicit or
                  entice away from the Company or any Group Company the business
                  or custom of any customer or Prospective Customer with whom
                  you had business dealings on behalf of the Company or any
                  Group Company in the course of the period of 12 months prior
                  to the termination of your employment or about which customer
                  or Prospective Customer you are privy to confidential
                  information at the date your employment terminates; or

         (b)      in connection with the carrying on of any business which
                  competes with any business of the Company or any Group Company
                  with which business you were involved in the period of 12
                  months prior to the termination of your employment, have
                  business dealings or contract with any customer or Prospective
                  Customer of the Company or any Group Company with which
                  customer or Prospective Customer you had business dealings on
                  behalf of the Company or any Group Company in the course of
                  the period of 12 months prior to the termination of your
                  employment or about which customer or Prospective Customer you
                  are privy to confidential information at the date your
                  employment terminates; or.

         (c)      seek to entice away from the Company or any Group Company any
                  person employed or engaged by the Company or any Group Company
                  as or carrying out the functions of a director, vice
                  president, manager or any other person acting in a sales,
                  research and development or technical capacity at the date
                  your employment terminates with whom you had material contact
                  in the period of 12 months prior to the termination of your
                  employment with the Company provided that this restriction
                  shall apply regardless of whether the solicitation involves a
                  breach of contract on the part of the director or employee
                  concerned; or

         (d)      employ or engage or offer to employ or engage any person
                  employed or engaged by the Company any Group Company as or
                  carrying out the functions of a director, vice president,
                  manager or any other person acting in a sales, research and
                  development or technical capacity at the date your employment
                  terminates with whom you had dealings in the last 12 months of
                  your employment with the Company provided that this
                  restriction shall apply regardless of whether the employment
                  involves a breach of contract on the part of the director or
                  employee concerned; or

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         (e)      endeavour to entice away from the Company or in any way seek
                  to affect the terms of business on which the Company deals
                  with any person, firm, company or organisation whom or which
                  supplied goods or services to the Company during the period of
                  12 months prior to the termination of your employment.

23.2.    You agree that you will not, without the prior written permission of
         the Board, for a period of 6 months following the termination of your
         employment with the Company (less any period you spend on garden leave
         pursuant to clause 21), be engaged or employed in the Restricted Area
         by or otherwise involved or interested in any company, firm,
         organisation or business which competes in the Restricted Area with any
         business of the Company or any Group Company with which business you
         are involved in the last 12 months of your employment under this
         Agreement. In the event that you serve on the Company a written request
         for permission to be employed or engaged by any company, firm,
         organisation or business and the Company refuses to provide its
         permission, then the Company will pay you at a rate equivalent to one
         twelfth of your basic annual salary under this Agreement as at the date
         your employment with the Company terminates for each period of one
         month following the date on which your employment with the Company
         terminates during which period you are restricted from commencing such
         employment or engagement by reason of this clause 23.2 subject to:

         (a)      you providing the Company, in any such request made by you,
                  with: the name and address of the company, firm, organisation
                  or business which has offered to employ or engage you; details
                  of the job title and duties associated with the position
                  offered to you by such company, firm, organisation or
                  business; and a copy of any written offer of employment or
                  engagement made to you by such company, firm, organisation or
                  business.

         (b)      you complying in full with the terms of clause 23; and

         (c)      the deduction from any sum prima facie due to you under this
                  clause 23.2 of any remuneration, salary, fees or other income
                  earned by you arising from or in relation to any employment or
                  engagement undertaken by you during such period (but not
                  including any income arising from any employment or engagement
                  which you had commenced at least six months prior to the date
                  on which your employment terminates provided that you had
                  permission from your Manager to undertake such employment or
                  engagement pursuant to clause 2.1 of this Agreement).

         The payment due to you will be paid in monthly instalments in arrears
         within 14 days of you confirming to the Board in writing the amount of
         remuneration, salary, fees or other income earned by you arising from
         or in relation to any employment or engagement undertaken by you during
         the period of one month to which the instalment relates.

23.3.    Each of the sub-clauses contained in clause 23 constitutes an entirely
         separate and independent covenant. If any restriction is held to be
         invalid or unenforceable by a court of competent jurisdiction, it is
         intended and understood by the parties that such invalidity or
         unenforceability will not affect the remaining restrictions or the
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         the Agreement and that if any such restriction would be valid if some
         part thereof were deleted, such restrictions shall apply with such
         modification as may be necessary to make them effective.

23.4.    You agree that if you receive an offer of employment, consultancy,
         directorship or other office or partnership during the continuance in
         force of any of the above, you will prior to acceptance of an offer,
         provide the party making the offer with copies of this clause and
         details of your notice period, the restrictions on your use and
         disclosure of confidential information and the clauses dealing with
         copyright and inventions. Further, within 48 hours of receiving the
         aforementioned offer you will notify the Company of the identity of the
         party making the offer and the terms of the offer.

23.5.    You acknowledge that:

         (a)      each of the restrictions in clause 23 goes no further than is
                  necessary to protect the legitimate business interests of the
                  Company and any Group Company; and

         (b)      the Company is entering into this Agreement not only for
                  itself but as trustee for each Group Company and with the
                  intention that the Company and/or any Group Company will be
                  entitled to seek the protection of and enforce each of its
                  restrictions directly against you. If requested to do so by
                  the Company however, you will at any time enter into like
                  restrictions as those contained in this clause 23 (mutatis
                  mutandis) with any other Group Company.

23.6.    Nothing in this clause 23 shall prohibit you from holding the
         investments and interests set out in clause 2.1 above.

23.7.    Following the date your employment terminates, you will not:

         (a)      represent yourself as being in any way connected with the
                  business of the Company or any Group Company (except to the
                  extent agreed by such Company):

         (b)      represent, promote or advertise or refer to your previous
                  connection with the Company or any Group Company in such a way
                  as to utilise any of their goodwill

         (c)      carry on, cause or permit to be carried on any business under
                  or using any name, trade mark, service mark, style, logo,
                  get-up or image which is or has been used by the Company or
                  any Group Company, or which in the reasonable opinion of the
                  Board, is calculated to cause confusion with such a name,
                  trade mark, service mark, style, logo, get-up or image or
                  infer a connection with the Company or any Group Company.

24.      DISCIPLINARY AND GRIEVANCE PROCEDURES

A copy of the Company's disciplinary and grievance procedures are available from
Human Resources. These policies do not form part of your contract of employment
and may be varied by the Company at any time.

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25.      COLLECTIVE AGREEMENTS

There are no collective Agreements which directly affect your terms and
conditions of employment.

26.      SECURITY

26.1.    All communications, whether by telephone, email, fax, or any other
         means, which are transmitted, undertaken or received using Company
         property or on Company premises will be treated by the Company as work
         related and are subject to interception, recording and monitoring
         without further notice. You should not regard any such communications
         as private.

26.2.    Interception, recording and monitoring of communications is intended to
         protect the Company's business interests, for example, but without
         limitation, for the purposes of quality control, security of
         communication and IT systems, record-keeping and evidential
         requirements, detection and prevention of criminal activity or
         misconduct and to assist the Company to comply with relevant legal
         requirements. Such interception, recording and monitoring will not be
         undertaken for prurient interest.

26.3.    Intercepted communications may be used as evidence in disciplinary or
         legal proceedings, including in any such action against you.

26.4.    By transmitting, undertaking or receiving communication using Company
         property or on Company premises you consent to the above terms.

27.      ENTIRE AGREEMENT

27.1.    This Agreement sets out the entire agreement between the Company and
         you at the date of this Agreement in relation to your terms and
         conditions of employment and is in substitution for and supersedes any
         previous contract of employment between the Company and you, which
         shall be deemed to have been terminated by mutual consent and without
         giving rise to claims against the Company. You represent and warrant
         that you are not entering into this Agreement in reliance on any
         representation not expressly set out herein.

27.2.    The termination of this Agreement howsoever arising shall not affect
         any of the provisions of this Agreement which are expressed to operate
         or have effect or are capable of operation or effect after such
         termination.

28.      NOTICES

Any notice you are required to give under this Agreement should be given by you
to your Manager. Any notice the Company is required to give you should be handed
to you or delivered or posted by special delivery post to your last notified
address. These notices will be deemed to have been given on receipt if handed to
you or your Manager, when delivered if delivered or posted to your last notified
address.

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29.      THIRD PARTIES

This Agreement constitutes an agreement solely between the Company and you and,
save where otherwise provided, nothing in this contract confers or purports to
confer on a third party any benefit or any right to enforce a term of this
contract for the purposes of the Contracts (Rights of Third Parties) Act 1999.

30.      INTERPRETATION

30.1.    Any reference in this Agreement to:

30.2.    any Act or delegated legislation includes any statutory modification or
         re-enactment of it or the provision referred to;

30.3.    "Board" shall mean the Board of Directors of the Company from time to
         time or any person or any committee of the Board duly appointed by it;

30.4.    "Group Company" means a company which from time to time is a subsidiary
         or a holding company of the Company or a subsidiary of such holding
         company (where the terms "subsidiary" and "holding company" have the
         meanings attributed to them by section 736 of the Companies Act 1985);

30.5.    The words "include" and "including" and "in particular" shall be
         construed as being by way of illustration only and shall not limit the
         generality of the preceding words;

30.6.    "Prospective Customer" means any person with whom the Company (or any
         Group Company) is in negotiations or is tendering for the supply of its
         goods and services; and

30.7.    "Restricted Area" means the United Kingdom and other geographical area
         in relation to which you carried out your duties for the Company or in
         respect of which you were responsible during (in both cases) the period
         of 12 months immediately preceding the termination of your employment
         with the Company.

31.      GOVERNING LAW

Your terms of employment with the Company are governed by English law and the
parties submit to the exclusive jurisdiction of the English Courts. The Company
may however enforce the Agreement in any other courts of competent jurisdiction.

IN WITNESS WHEREOF this Agreement has been executed and delivered as a deed on
the date set out above.

EXECUTED AND DELIVERED                               /s/ Ian Burrows
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AS A DEED BY                          IAN BURROWS
BOOKHAM TECHNOLOGY PLC
ACTING BY ITS ATTORNEY IAN BURROWS
IN THE PRESENCE OF:

Signature of witness:                 /s/ Melanie Waters
                                      -------------------

Print name of witness:                MELANIE WATERS

Print address of witness:             Bookham Technology plc
                                      Abingdon

Print occupation of witness:          Senior Resourcing Officer

EXECUTED AND DELIVERED
AS A DEED BY: MICHAEL SCOTT           /s/ Michael Scott
                                      -----------------

IN THE PRESENCE OF:

Signature of witness:                 /s/ Jeanette Granger
                                      ---------------------

Print name of witness:                Jeanette Granger
                                      -----------------

Print address of witness:             Churchdene, Evesham Road, Norton, Evesham,
                                      ------------------------------------------
                                      Worcestershire WR11 4TJ
                                      -----------------------

Print occupation of witness:          VP of Human Resources
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