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Queen's Award for Enterprise: Innovation
Queen's Award for Enterprise: Innovation.
About this update from Gooch & Housego Plc
[{"type":"text","content":"\n \nRNS Number : 9959V Gooch & Housego PLC 22 April 2016 \n\n\n\n\n\nFor immediate release\n\n\n22 April 2016\n\n\n\n\n \nRNS REACH\n \n \n \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n \nGooch & Housego PLC\n(\"G&H\" or the \"Company\")\n \nQueen's Award for Enterprise: Innovation\nGooch & Housego PLC (AIM: GHH), the specialist manufacturer of optical components & systems, is delighted to confirm that it has won a prestigious Queen's Award for Enterprise: Innovation in recognition of the commercial success of its laser modulation device, the Fiber-Q™.\nLaunched in 2009, Fiber-Q™ is a pioneering product that has rapidly become one of G&H's flagship products, establishing itself as a key component in fibre based laser systems in multiple commercial applications.\nThe key innovation of Fiber-Q™ in the control and modulation of laser beams is that it is a single fibre-coupled, compact, relatively low cost and very flexible component. It has enabled lasers to be used effectively in applications as diverse as oil and gas pipeline security monitoring, printed circuit board micro-drilling, laser surgery, medical diagnostics and microscopy.\nThe Fiber-Q™ is less complex and more robust than alternative products, and it can be easily incorporated into the architecture of customers' fibre laser systems.\nMark Webster, Chief Executive Officer of Gooch & Housego, commented:\n\"Gooch & Housego has a long history of innovation and we are very honoured to receive this Queen's Award for Fiber-Q™. The award recognises both the commercial success of the product and the benefits that it's brought to the fiber optic marketplace.\"\n\n\n\n\n \n \nFor further information contact: \n \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nMark Webster / Andrew Boteler \n\n\nGooch & Housego PLC\n \n\n\n01460 256440\n\n\n\n\nMark Court / Sophie Cowles / Catriona Flint \n\n\nBuchanan \n\n\n020 7466 5000\n \n\n\n\n\nPatrick Robb / David Anderson \n\n\nInvestec Bank plc\n\n\n020 7597 5970\n\n\n\n\n \n \n \n \nNotes to editors\n \n1. Gooch & Housego is a photonics technology business headquartered in Ilminster, Somerset, UK with operations in the USA and Europe. A world leader in its field, the company researches, designs, engineer...