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G&H Photonics: From Components to Real-World Systems

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G&H (LON: GHH), designs, engineers, and manufactures photonics technologies that go far beyond individual components. Bringing together vertically integrated capability and product engineering to deliver scalable solutions ready for real-world deployment.

In this Laser Focus World video, recorded at Photonics West, Toby Reid, Product Management Director, and Tom Ackrill, Senior Business Development Manager, discuss how G&H supports customers from enabling photonic building blocks through to end-to-end integrated subsystems and complete system-level life sciences outcomes.

The leap from a high-performing component to a reliable system requires design-for-manufacture, repeatability, environmental robustness, and cross-discipline engineering. In the video, our team outlines how G&H helps customers make that transition, reducing technical risk and accelerating time to deployment.

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Vertically integrated expertise built to scale

When programs move from prototype to volume, supply chain complexity and manufacturing variability can derail performance and delivery. G&H’s vertically integrated model is designed to address that challenge by combining deep photonics know-how with product engineering and scalable manufacturing capability, supporting consistent quality from early development through to production ramp.

Engineering outcomes for real-world applications

Whether you’re optimizing throughput, shrinking size/weight/power, improving stability, or qualifying for demanding environments, systems success is driven by trade-offs across optics, mechanics, electronics, packaging, and test. The video highlights how G&H brings these disciplines together to deliver solutions that are not only high performance, but also manufacturable, testable, and reliable in the field.

A close-up image showing a healthcare professional using the Psyros™ diagnostic device from Prolight Diagnostics. The device has a sleek, compact design with a touchscreen displaying test results for Troponin I, reading "1.2 ng/l." In the background, a gloved hand is performing a finger-prick blood test on a patient. The overall setting suggests a point-of-care testing environment.©️ Psyros™ Diagnostics Ltd.'s Psyros™ Point-of-Care System © Prolight Diagnostics

Key products and services featured in the video

  • How G&H connects precision components to higher-level assemblies and systems outcomes
  • Why product engineering and integration matter as much as component performance
  • How vertically integrated capability supports scalability and deployment readiness
  • Prolight Diagnostics (IVD) – G&H | ITL partnered with Prolight Diagnostics to design and develop the Psyros™ instrument - combining advanced photonics expertise with end-to-end medical device engineering an example of photonics enabling in-vitro diagnostics, highlighting how G&H capabilities support translation from components into real-world healthcare applications
  • Polarization Diverse Receivers (PDRs) – compact polarization-diverse receiver solutions (including variants for key telecom/OCT wavelength bands), supporting high-fidelity sensing and integration
  • Fiber optic couplers – engineered splitting/combining solutions for stable power handling and repeatable performance in deployed systems
  • Optical delay lines – precision delay solutions for timing control, synchronisation, and system-level signal management
  • Fiber-coupled AOMs (acousto-optic modulators) – integrated modulation building blocks that simplify alignment and improve robustness for real-world use
  • Polymer optics for medical devices – precision-moulded, lightweight optical components and assemblies designed for scalable manufacture in medical and IVD instrumentation
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