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Gooch & Housego PLC
17 July 2014 
 
 For immediate release  17 July 2014  
 
 
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Gooch & Housego PLC 
 
("G&H" or the "Company") 
 
Prestigious award from the Institute of Physics 
 
Gooch & Housego PLC, the specialist manufacturer of optical components and
systems, announces that it is one of just four companies to receive the
prestigious Innovation Award 2014 from the Institute of Physics. The award
acknowledges Gooch & Housego's Fibre-Q product line which gives customers
greater versatility in the use of lasers. 
 
Lasers are becoming ubiquitous in a wide range of applications today, from
manufacturing smart phones to highly sensitive sensing applications.  Gooch &
Housego's Fibre-Q acousto-optic solution allows the rapid electronic control
of the optical properties of a laser beam, enabling precise changes in laser
amplitude, frequency and wavelength that are required for a wide variety of
applications such as material processing, optical sensing and imaging. 
 
Dr Frances Saunders, President of the Institute of Physics, commented: 
 
"Despite being thought useless when discovered more than 50 years ago,
businesses are still finding uses for lasers in the widest range of
industries. Gooch & Housego are a wonderful example of a company that is
driving technology forward to help other companies exploit a founding
innovation, while creating jobs and making a very healthy return for
themselves." 
 
Dr Andrew Robertson, Gooch & Housego's Senior Vice President - Systems
Technology Group, commented: 
 
"For Gooch & Housego, winning this award provides recognition that by using
our expertise in the field of photonics and detailed understanding of optical
material characteristics, we can develop an innovative product with a great
technical competitive advantage that precisely serves the needs of our
customers in a wide variety of applications." 
 
 For further information contact: -                               
 Gooch & Housego PLC                               01460 256440   
 Gareth Jones / Andrew Botelergoochandhousego.com                 
                                                                  
 BuchananMark Court  / Gabriella Clinkard          020 7466 5000  
                                                                  
 Investec Bank plcPatrick Robb / David Anderson    020 7597 5970  
 
 
ENDS 
 
Notes to Editors 
 
The Institute of Physics is a leading scientific society. They are a
charitable organisation with a worldwide membership of more than 50,000,
working together to advance physics education, research and application. 
 
They engage with policymakers and the general public to develop awareness and
understanding of the value of physics and, through IOP Publishing, they are
world leaders in professional scientific communications. 
 
You can find more detail about the Innovation Awards at iop.org/innovation 
 
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