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Gooch & Housego
Company Description
Gooch & Housego is a manufacturer of precision optical components and sub-systems, as well as 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 – Crystal Growth, Acousto Optics and RF Drive Electronics, Electro Optics, Fibre Optics, Optical Polishing & Coatings, Spectroradiometers, Integrating Sphere Calibration Standards, NIST-Traceable Calibration Standards and Services, Spectral Imaging & Synthesis - coupled with our long established reputation as an industry leader, makes Gooch & Housego the solution for your optics and photonics needs. With worldwide sales & marketing and six manufacturing sites, the clear advantage to the customer is access to proven standard products, as well as the capability to take customers' new visions from design through prototyping to volume production of the future.
Contact Information
Dowlish Ford
Somerset
United Kingdom
Press Releases
| OL Series 730E Radiometer/Photometer to replace the OL 730C
After many years of success and proven performance with our OL 730C, Gooch & Housego announces the release of the OL 730E Radiometer/Photometer. This newest model in the OL Series 730 line boasts a smaller footprint and reduced cost while providing similar research-grade precision and accuracy. The OL 730E has an internal preamplifier and a sensitivity of 1 X 10-14 amperes. It may be virtually controlled via the USB interface, and boasts a response time as fast as 0.1 seconds and a full-scale range of 2 x 10-10 to 2 x 10-3 amperes. Also being offered with this new radiometer will be a series of TE-cooled detectors, which will provide enhanced temperature stability over time while utilizing a smaller control unit. |
| High Quality Optical Products
UV Applications? High laser damage requirements? Gooch and Housego has a reputation of manufacturing optical products to the highest cosmetic quality standards and beyond super-polished roughness exceeding <1.0 Å. Using our sub-angstrom super-polished substrates, combined with our IBS coating technology, you can expect performance gains. Materials such as BK7, Sapphire, Fused Silica, Silicon, Silicon Carbide, Zerodur and many others. |
| LightGate Series of BBO Pockel Cells
Gooch & Housego continues to improve the LightGate series of BBO Pockels cells. Widely used for demanding applications requiring high pulse repetition and/or high average power, BBO-based LightGate cells function ideally in laser marking, drilling, and machining applications. Availability in a variety of configurations, including multi-crystal designs as well as a damped version, makes this cell the perfect solution for many situations.
Gooch & Housego (Ohio) continues to lead the way in large-aperture KD*P Pockels cells and wave plates for femtosecond and petawatt laser platforms. The very large apertures, high contrast ratio, and extraordinarily fast rise times of G&H TX series Pockels cells permit pulse picking in systems with large beams Our KDP wave plates with apertures up to ~42 cm, routinely used in the world’s leading inertial confinement fusion programs, provide polarization control in such large beam systems. |
| "Mini" AOM Driver
The Melbourne, FL division of Gooch & Housego now offers a “mini” AOM driver that is capable of delivering up to 2.5W of RF power at frequencies of < 100 MHz. It is extremely small and has a lower power demand as compared to standard sized AOM drivers that have similar performance. Conduction cooling is required by the user. Either analog or digital (TTL) modulation are available. |
| OL 770-InGaAs Spectroradiometer
The Life Sciences and Instrumentation division of Gooch and Housego has added the OL 770-InGaAs Spectroradiometer to their line of high-quality, high-accuracy light measurement equipment. This high-speed, multi-channel spectroradiometer extends the wavelength range to cover the 750 – 1700 nm spectrum, in addition to the current 200-780 nm, 380-780 nm and 380 – 1100 nm versions that are already available. Applications range from chemometrics and determining atmospheric absorption, to solar simulator and IRED source measurements. The modular design of the 770 product line makes it easy to integrate the InGaAs system into an existing setup to cover an even wider spectral range without needing to procure additional accessories. |
| 8-Channel Direct Digital Synthesizer
The next generation direct digital synthesizer (DDS) for agile acousto-optic device control is now available from Crystal Technology, a Gooch & Housego company. Building on the success of its predecessor, this newest architecture raises the DDS performance to a new standard. With an enhanced embedded Linux operating system, the DDS has evolved into a serious network appliance. Users now have the ability to create custom commands. Ethernet connectivity with Telnet, FTP, HTTP, SSH, Syslog, and Security provide the framework for training, on-line diagnostics, and high-speed control not previously available. |
| Non-hermetic Fibre-Q
Gooch and Housego's Torquay facility is pleased to announce the release of a new addition to its successful “Fibre-Q” fibre coupled acousto-optic modulator product line. Following on the success of their fully hermetic product, designed to perform in the most demanding environmental conditions, G&H has developed a non-hermetic version. The non-hermetic Fibre-Q utilizes the same reliable core build process of the hermetic Fibre-Q, retaining the same optical performance while offering reduction in size, weight, and cost. The non-hermetic Fibre-Q has been designed for use in OEM industrial applications in which environmental conditions are less harsh. In particular, G&H expects the product to appeal to the very competitive industrial pulsed fibre laser market. |
| Gooch & Housego Launch the New Non Hermetic Fiber Q-Swtich
Gooch and Housego are pleased to announce the release of a new addition to its successful fibre coupled acousto-optic modulator product line.
Following the success of their fully hermetic, “Fibre-Q” product launched in 2009, designed to perform in the most demanding environmental conditions, G&H have developed a non-hermetic version of the product.
The non-hermetic Fibre-Q utilizes the same reliable core build process of the hermetic Fibre-Q and retains the same optical performance while offering reduction in size, weight, and cost. The non-hermetic Fibre-Q has been designed for use in high volume OEM industrial applications in which environmental conditions are more likely to be controlled. In particular, G&H expect the product to appeal to the very competitive industrial pulsed fibre laser market. The increasing demand in laser sources for a multitude of material processing applications has led to an increasing demand for fibre laser sources, which in turn has led to a demand for specialist fibre coupled components such as acousto-optic modulators.
G&H have been a dominant player in the acousto-optics market for many years and have supplied hundreds of thousands of Q-switches in to the industrial laser market. In-house control of crystal polishing and coating process has enabled the ability to produce high volumes of components in a reproducible manner with high quality and laser damage threshold. Combining G&H core technologies of acousto-optics and fibre optics has resulted in the development of a family of fibre coupled AO modulators for the most demanding applications.
For more information please contact Rob Swain at Gooch & Housego or visit our stand #1107 at Photonics West, The Moscone Center, San Francisco, 25th – 27th January 2011. |
| Optronic Laboratories Changes Name
Effective January 2010, Optronic Laboratories and ChromoDynamics will be known as Gooch and Housego, the parent brand of these two photonics market leaders. They will join the other Gooch and Housego materials and components enterprises to broaden the well-known and trusted brand's offerings to include state-of-the-art life sciences imaging and light measurement instrumentation solutions. The new organization will leverage Gooch and Housego's extensive world-wide engineering, operations, sales, distribution and support channels to enhance their response to their client's specific needs. Alex Fong, Senior Vice-President for Gooch and Housego's Life Sciences and Instrumentation segment, stated, "Many of our partners require solutions based upon the broad portfolio of capabilities that we offer. The new organization enables us to fully leverage all of our strengths and bring them front and center to meet and exceed customers' expectations." |
| G&H Unveils Its Range of Fibre Collimators
Gooch & Housego, a leading manufacturer of optical fibre products has launched a range of fibre collimators. In many applications incorporating optical fibre components light transitions from being guided in fibre to propagating as a collimated beam in free space. G&H’s non-contact style, single mode, fibre collimators incorporate achromatic lenses and employ coatings to minimize back reflections. Proprietary alignment and assembly processes guarantee a beam having low pointing error that is stable over a wide range of operating conditions.
The first collimators available have 2mm and 3mm beam diameters and operate at 840nm. This wavelength has been selected as it is often used in Optical Coherence Tomography (OCT) systems, a market in which G&H has a strong presence. Custom variants are available up on request and collimators can be integrated with fibre optic couplers. G&H’s strong optical design capability allows it to offer collimators across a wide range of operating wavelengths and with custom beam characteristics.
The Gooch and Housego Product Manager for Fibre Optic components,
Toby Reid, said “With this new range of fibre collimators we are able to support our customers in making the transition from fibre to free space particularly with our ability to integrate couplers and collimators. We have already seen a strong demand for these components from OCT customers and we expect that they will be widely used in instrumentation applications and many other fields.”
Copy of the Datasheet please clink on the link below:
http://www.goochandhousego.com/files/PEC%200152i1.pdf |
| Optronic Laboratories & ChromoDynamics Change Their Name
“Effective from 23rd January 2009, Optronic Laboratories and ChromoDynamics will be known as Gooch and Housego, the parent brand of these two photonics market leaders. They will join the other Gooch and Housego materials and components enterprises to broaden the well-known and trusted brand’s offerings to include state-of-the-art life sciences imaging and light measurement instrumentation solutions.
The new organization will leverage Gooch and Housego’s extensive world-wide engineering, operations, sales, distribution and support channels to enhance their response to their client’s specific needs.
Alex Fong, Senior Vice-President for Gooch and Housego’s Life Sciences and Instrumentation segment, stated that “many of our partners require solutions based upon the broad portfolio of capabilities that we offer the new organization enables us to fully leverage all of our strengths and bring them front and center to meet and exceed customers’ expectations.” |
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