Gooch & Housego Announces Qualification Of Relocated Crystal Growth Activities

Gooch & Housego are happy to report the completion of qualification activities by all customers for optical grade Lithium Niobate wafers. Following the acquisition of Crystal Technology, LLC in March 2011 G&H took the decision to establish a center for high temperature growth adjacent to our existing facilities in Cleveland Ohio.

The transfer of growth equipment, technology, and personnel from Palo Alto to Cleveland was no small task and necessarily required approval and requalification by our key customers.G&H are happy to report that the requisite qualification has been completed and that of key customers have approved the relocated site. While the qualification process was substantially different from one customer to another – in all cases the process proved demanding. G&H thanks partners for their sincere cooperation and assistance through the transition.

The result of the transfer establishes an additional 30 000 sq. ft / 2 781 sq.m. of manufacturing space prepared and outfitted for high temperature growth bringing our total space in Ohio to nearly 90,000 sq. ft./ 8 360 sq.m. Site preparation included extensive HVAC modification and sufficient electrical and infrastructure in support of crystal growth. All told G&H invested in excess of £2M for facilities improvements. While our focus thus far has been on qualifying relocated processes we now look forward to expanding both our output, to follow customer demands, and to broadening our offering of materials to follow future market requirements.

About Gooch & Housego
Gooch & Housego is a vertically integrated supplier of critical photonic solutions: optical components, assemblies and sub-systems, in addition to light measurement instrumentation and services to the Aerospace & Defense, Biomedical, Industrial and R&D sectors. World leading design, development and manufacturing expertise is offered across a broad, complementary range of technologies:

• Precision-Optics
• Optical Coatings
• Acousto-Optics
• RF Electronics
• Electro-Optics
• Fiber Optics
• Crystal Growth
• NIST-traceable calibration standards and services
• Optical radiation measurement solutions including spectroradiometry and spectral imaging

Founded in 1948 G&H has today six manufacturing sites in the USA and two in the United Kingdom in addition to sales offices in China, France and Germany and an extensive network of distributors. For more information, visit www.goochandhousego.com or e-mail us at sales@goochandhousego.com.