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Company

Gooch & Housego PLC

Gooch & Housego designs, engineers and manufactures photonics products for industrial, telecom, aerospace, defense, space, quantum and life sciences customers. ↗

Websitegoochandhousego.com ↗

Products

  • Gooch & Housego makes acousto-optic products, which offer high optical power handling. ↗
  • Gooch & Housego grows its own crystal boules and materials for crystal optics. ↗
  • Gooch & Housego makes electro-optic components and complete customized system designs. ↗
  • Gooch & Housego makes fiber optics products for harsh environments. ↗
  • Gooch & Housego makes precision optical components, including custom optics. ↗
  • Gooch & Housego makes precision-molded polymer optics. ↗
  • Gooch & Housego makes optical coatings and filters. ↗
  • Gooch & Housego makes vision systems for periscope integrators and suppliers. ↗

Customers

  • Gooch & Housego sells to OEM customers, building photonics solutions for their systems. ↗

Deals since 2020

Oct 202619

Arlington Capital Partners takes Gooch & Housego private

UK-based designer and manufacturer of photonic and optical components and subsystems for aerospace & defense, industrial and life sciences markets.

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