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Gooch & Housego announces a million Euro contract with a large European OEM for a range of components to be used in fiber laser systems

Date Announced: 02 Nov 2012

Ilminster, Somerset, UK

Gooch & Housego is pleased to announce the signing of a million Euro contract with a large European OEM for a range of components to be used in fiber laser systems. These include AO modulators, Fiber-Q's, RF drivers and laser pumps which are all manufactured by the Gooch & Housego group.

Gooch & Housego is a market leader in the provision of optical components for Q-switched fiber laser systems. With the growing use of fiber optics in non-telecom applications in recent years Gooch & Housego has been able to use its expertise in acousto-optics and fiber optics to supply sub-systems to OEMs in a broad range of markets. These include industrial applications in micromachining and biomedical uses in OCT (optical coherence tomography).

Paul Morris, Senior VP of Sales at Gooch & Housego commented "This illustrates the growth in Q-switched fiber laser systems generally and Gooch & Housego's strong position in this market. Our ability to supply a range of products in one package to a major OEM is a clear benefit to this industry".

The Gooch & Housego group is a manufacturer of critical optical components and sub-systems, in addition to light measurement instrumentation and services, based upon key enabling optical technologies. World leading design, development and manufacturing expertise across a broad, complementary range of technologies:

• Precision Optics
• Electro Optics
• Optical Coatings
• Fiber Optics
• Acousto Optics
• Crystal Growth
• RF Electronics
• Optical radiation measurement

Gooch & Housego works consultatively with clients in a range of market sectors including aerospace and defense, biomedical, industrial and scientific. The organization is proud of its quality assurance and of its ISO9001 and SC21 accreditation and is working to achieve AS9100 standard. For more information, please visit www.goochandhousego.com.

Contact

Adrian Chance
Marcomms Manager
Gooch & Housego plc
+44 1460 256440

E-mail: marketing@goochandhousego.com

Web Site: www.goochandhousego.com

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