
Video: Specifying Photonic Devices for Harsh Environments
Specifying and purchasing photonic devices for rugged environments.
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Fiber Optics
Gooch & Housego’s line of active and passive fiber optic components and modules offer the performance and reliability required for some of the most demanding and challenging applications in the world. Our designs have been qualified and deployed in space applications and are widely used in terrestrial and submarine telecommunications systems. We support customers through all aspects of system development, lending our expertise in integration of end-to-end fiber optic systems and design for harsh environments. From custom packaging of semiconductor devices to fiber optic assemblies and fused biconical tapering, we have developed best in class design and manufacturing techniques to optimize performance and reliability.Fiber optic product families
Fused Fiber Optic Components
Fused fiber couplers, taps, and multimode pump combiners for visible and NIR wavelengths; single-mode and polarization maintaining fiberFiber Coupled AOM (Fiber-Q®)
High performance, robust fiber coupled acousto-optic modulators; single-mode and polarization maintaining fiberFiber Optic Assemblies
Customized all-fiber assemblies integrating passive and/or active optical components to provide higher functionality in a compact footprint.Fiber-coupled Pump Lasers
High power, ruggedized single-mode and multi-mode fiber coupled lasers with up to 700 mW output powerHigh Speed Detectors
Photodetectors with ripple free, linear response from DC to 20 GHz for the 1280-1620 nm spectral rangeDFB Lasers & Modules
Integrated OEM packaged lasers with narrow linewidth, tunable output for C-band, L-band, 1310 nm, or 1064 nmBenchtop Laser Controller
User-friendly USB or touch-pad interface for control of single-mode and DFB diode lasersHigh Reliability Fused Fiber Optic Components
High Reliability tap couplers, pump signal WDMs, and high power pump combiners for integration and operation in undersea communications networks and harsh space flight environments.High Reliability Booster Erbium-Doped Fiber Amplifier
High Reliability Booster Erbium-Doped Fiber Amplifier: EDFA and EDYFA modules for integration and operation in harsh and space flight environmentsOCT Components and Subsystems
G&H enables fiber optic OCT systems with the high-performance fused fiber components, assemblies, and spectrometers needed to achieve high-resolution imaging.
Fiber-Coupled Pump Lasers (SM and MM Pumps)
High power, single-mode fiber coupled lasers up to 700mW power ex-fiber

DFB Lasers and Modules
High Power and High Bandwidth DFB lasers in ruggedized butterfly packages.

High Speed Detectors
Ripple free, linear response from DC to 20GHz for the 1280-1620nm spectral range

Benchtop Laser Controllers
Benchtop controller with USB or touch-pad interface control of DFB or SM lasers.

Fused Fiber Optic Components
The highest performance fused fiber optic couplers and high power combiners

Fiber Optic Assemblies
Components integrated to provide higher functionality in a compact footprint
OCT Components and Subsystems
High quality optical components and optical sub-systems for biomedical imaging
High Reliability Fused Fiber Optic Components
HI REL fused fiber optic components for environments such as undersea and space

High Reliability Optical Fiber Amplifiers
Amplifier modules for use in harsh and space flight environment.