What should you consider when specifying components for an optically-based sensing subsystem? What are the challenges in designing these into a subsystem? Learn about developing subsystems and specifying components for manufacturing and assembly in this webinar hosted by G&H.

G&H bases their core technologies around acousto-optics, electro-optics, fiber optics, and precision optics. Components, subsystems and systems products range from commercial off the shelf, through pre-engineered designs, contract manufacturing to fully customized. 

G&H NightCrawlIR™ series utilizes unique aperture specific foreoptics and a modular base to maximize performance, while staying budget-friendly. These lenses are purpose-built from the ground up for the demands of high resolution applications.

G&H is recognized for the diversity of their acousto-optic, electro-optic, crystal-optic, fiber optic, and precision optic products. G&H's engineers bring decades of experience, working closely with program managers at prime aerospace and defense suppliers. 

G&H is recognized as a leading provider of advanced optics, fiber optics, acousto-optics, and electro-optics for demanding applications in industrial lasers, semiconductor equipment, fiber-optic subsea networks, and optical sensing and metrology.

On 16 May 2021 the world will celebrate the fourth annual International Day of Light. As a leading photonics company, G&H are proud to support and celebrate this global UNESCO initiative. The International Day of Light provides a platform for the continued appreciation of light and the role it plays in science, culture and art, education and sustainable development, and in fields as diverse as medicine, communications and energy. 

Our vision is to change the world with photonics. As a leading photonics company we are doing precisely that, as NASA utilizes G&H’s innovative acousto-optic tunable filter (AOTF) as part of the Perseverance Rover’s SuperCam. Launched eight months ago, the Mars 2020 Perseverance Rover has travelled 203 days and 127 million miles through space to finally land last night at 20:55 GMT on Jezero Crater near the planet’s equator – the most difficult landing site on the red planet ever attempted.

G&H announces that it has acquired US fiber optic components and sub systems specialist Gould Fiber Optics. This acquisition strengthens G&H’s position as the world leader in fused fiber optic technology and provides enhanced access to strategic US Aerospace and Defence customers.

G&H announces G&H, Ilminster has undergone a successful transition assessment to AS9100:2016 performed by BSi and equivalent too AS9100 Rev D.

G&H announces the FP7 project MINERVA has now been completed. MINERVA (MId- to NEaR infrared spectroscopy for improVed medical diAgnostics) was funded by the European Commission through its Seventh Framework Programme (FP7). Co-ordinated by G&H, the project brought together thirteen partners from across Europe with the common objective of developing mid-infrared (mid-IR) technology based on supercontinuum sources (SCSs) to improve the early diagnosis of cancer.

G&H PLC recently announced the acquisition of StingRay Optics LLC. StingRay are a specialist designer and manufacturer of high performance optical and opto-mechanical sub-systems for demanding defense and commercial applications. The acquisition of StingRay is aligned with G&H's strategic objectives of moving up the value chain and further diversification into the aerospace & defense sector.

Saturday 22 January is an important date in the calendar for photonics engineering and manufacturing – from the point of view both of photonics companies and their customers. The date marks the start of the first Photonics West and BiOS conference and exhibition since 2020, in San Francisco – and we’ll be there.

Dr. Stratos Kehayas, G&H Group Chief Commercial Officer and acting Chief Technology Officer, reviews a memorable 2021, and explores the progress and opportunities 2022 might bring for G&H and the wider photonics market.

An acousto-optic modulator manipulates light through a transmission medium. The Fiber-Q component line contains offerings from visible through to 2 µm and is fully customizable to meet application requirements with connectors, high power capability, optical fiber pigtails, and more.

Crystals have become indispensable for steering, switching, repolarizing, and intensifying laser beams — in other words, for controlling them in different ways for multiple applications. At G&H, crystal growth, the manufacturing process, and incorporation into components are vertically integrated within the organization.

G&H’s expertise is founded on the use of best-in-class materials, image sensors, and control electronics. One arena that presents particularly interesting opportunities for the team to go above and beyond in accommodating customers’ special requirements is SWIR – Short Wave Infrared, favored for many applications because of its numerous benefits.

G&S announces the launch of its new Optical Systems Innovation Hub in a brand new facility in St. Asaph, UK. The specialized engineering environment houses a growing engineering team comprised of specialists in optical design, opto-mechanical analysis, electronics development, system testing and integration.

G&H acousto-optic deflectors allow for repeatable precision, at ultra-high speed. G&H’s acousto-optic deflectors hit the mark for industry and research alike.

Applied in many fields, including avionic and space communications, biomedical instrumentation, fiber laser systems, industrial micromachining, interferometry, lidar, medical diagnostics, sensing, and telecommunications, G&H's fused fiber components play a vital role in aligning and marrying individual cable fibers.

Manufacturing complex and exacting fiber optic components and assembling photonic subsystems demands the highest possible manufacturing standards.

Gooch & Housego, the specialist manufacturer of photonic components & systems, is committed to diversity in its recruitment initiatives, which include working with universities on postgraduate placements, advising on doctoral programs and promoting science, technology, engineering and mathematics (STEM) careers in schools.

“Fiber-coupled acousto-optic modulators” (FCAOM) is perhaps not a phrase that rolls naturally off the tongue. Yet this slightly awkward descriptor belies an elegant and robust solution for directly controlling the timing, intensity, and temporal shape of the output from fiber lasers – which enables them to be used in some of the most demanding applications in the world, including quantum and space.

The launch of G&H’s new EAR certified NightCrawlIR^TM infrared zoom lenses, under the StingRay brand, marks a step change in accuracy, repeatability, and cost-effectiveness in the mid-wave infrared (MWIR) imaging space, in critical sectors including aerospace and defense (A&D), and border security.

When a manufacturing facility producing high-reliability components for long-distance submarine cables suddenly has to triple its output of couplers for prestige clients, meeting this demand is literally a tall order. But this is exactly what happened at our Torquay facility.

Lidar (light detection and ranging) is pushing the boundaries of how we analyze, interpret, and understand both earth and space environments from afar – and G&H’s lidar solutions already underpin many international remote sensing projects and programs. 

Photonics Emerges Stronger from the Pandemic, Proving its Robustness and Resilience Against Market Disruptions. In this article G&H explores the demand for photonics-based solutions across sectors, applications and pain-points, and set out industry needs for photonic components to address the challenges customers face today.

Space is perhaps no longer ‘the final frontier’, but as an operating environment for optical components it remains in many ways the ultimate test of the technology’s reliability, resilience, and precision – far more so, typically, than with terrestrial applications.

G&H's A&D Business Development Manager, Trevor Cook discusses approaches to high-performance SWIR lens designs, by explaining technical challenges in more detail, addressing effective solutions.

Acousto-optic tunable filters (AOTFs) consist of solid-state technology partnered with high speeds and random-access tuning. G&H is adept at supplying optical components and sub-systems for demanding applications, including acousto-optic devices for operation in a space environment. 

OCT systems manufacturers need to deliver systems capable of higher resolution imaging, faster and at lower costs than ever before, posing a challenge. To achieve fit for purpose components and systems that are to specification, budget and timeline at scale, whilst reducing costs over the product lifetime, the challenge requires efficient and effective system design.

Using photonics technologies to establish communications in air-to-ground, air-to-air, and air-to-space fields offers many advantages related to transmission speed, low SWaP systems, spectrum regulations, and immunity to electromagnetic interference.