Gooch & Housego PLC

Gooch & Housego PLC is a United Kingdom-based photonics engineering company. The Company and its subsidiaries are manufacturers of specialist optoelectronic components, materials and systems, and specialist instrumentation and life sciences devices. The Company’s business is divided into three market sectors: industrial, aerospace and defense, and life sciences/bio photonics. The industrial segment primarily comprises the industrial laser market for use in the semiconductor and microelectronic industries, but also includes other industrial applications such as metrology, telecommunications, and scientific research. It is a designer and manufacturer of precision-optical components, pump lasers, and fiber-optic couplers for inertial navigation systems used in avionics and defense. The Company also specializes in the custom designing and manufacturing of precision polymer optics for use in the biomedical, machine vision and analytical instrument markets.