Prestigious award from the Institute of Physics

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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."

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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