Coherent Corp. (COHR) Q4 2023 Earnings Call

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Good day and thank you for standing by. Welcome to the Coherent Corp FY23 fourth quarter earnings call. At this time, all participants are in a listen-only mode. After the speaker's presentation, there'll be a question and answer session. To ask a question during the session, you'll need to press star 11 on your telephone. You will then hear an automated message advising your hand is raised. To withdraw your question, please press star 11 again. Please be advised today's conference is being recorded. I would now like to hand the conference over to your speaker today. Paul Silverstein, please go ahead. Thank you, Kevin, and good morning, everyone. Thank you for joining our fourth quarter fiscal 2023 earnings call. Today on the call, we have Chair and CEO, Dr. Chuck Matera, Chief Financial Officer, Mary Jane Raymond, Chief Strategy Officer and President, Materials Segment, Dr. Giovanni Barbarossa, and Laser Segment President, Dr. Mark Sobey. As a reminder, yesterday after the market closed, Coherent posted a shareholder letter along with an updated investor presentation. They can both be found in the investor relations section of our website. Before I turn the call over to Chuck for his opening remarks, I want to call everyone's attention to our shareholder letter and accompanying change in format of this morning's call. The shareholder letter contains the traditional financial statements that were previously set forth in our earnings press releases, along with additional color around our operating performance, key trends, and outlook. Given the additional disclosures in the letter, we plan to devote the bulk of this morning's call to answering questions from the financial community. We've undertaken this change with the goal of providing greater insight and clarity fo...