Coherent Corp. (Coherent) is a vertically integrated manufacturing company.
Coherent develops, manufactures, and markets lasers, transceivers, and other optical and optoelectronic devices, modules, and systems, as well as engineered materials, for use in communications, industrial, instrumentation and electronics applications. The company generates nearly all of its revenues, earnings, and cash flows from developing, manufacturing, and marketing a wide range of products and services for the com...
Coherent Corp. (Coherent) is a vertically integrated manufacturing company.
Coherent develops, manufactures, and markets lasers, transceivers, and other optical and optoelectronic devices, modules, and systems, as well as engineered materials, for use in communications, industrial, instrumentation and electronics applications. The company generates nearly all of its revenues, earnings, and cash flows from developing, manufacturing, and marketing a wide range of products and services for the company’s end markets. Coherent has broad technical expertise and a deep technology stack in areas of importance to the company’s products, including materials growth and fabrication of specialty materials, semiconductor lasers, passive optics including isolators, transceivers, transport equipment, high power lasers for semiconductor capital equipment, display manufacturing, precision manufacturing, and scientific research. Many of the company’s products include custom integrated software that the company develops internally, leveraging the company’s deep domain expertise.
Segments
For the year ended June 30, 2025 (fiscal year 2025), the company’s organizational structure was aligned into three reporting segments for the purpose of making operational decisions and assessing financial performance: (i) Networking, (ii) Materials, and (iii) Lasers. Effective July 1, 2025 for the company’s fiscal year 2026, the company realigned its organizational structure into two reporting segments: (i) Datacenter and Communications, and (ii) Industrial. The company will report financial information for these new reporting segments in fiscal 2026 for periods commencing on July 1, 2025.
Global Operations
The company’s principal U.S. production and R&D operations are located in California, Connecticut, Delaware, New Jersey, Pennsylvania, and Texas. The company’s principal non-U.S. production and R&D operations are based in China, Finland, Germany, Malaysia, the Philippines, Singapore, South Korea, Sweden, Switzerland, the United Kingdom, and Vietnam. The company also utilizes contract manufacturers and strategic suppliers. In addition to sales offices co-located at many of the company’s manufacturing sites, the company has sales and marketing subsidiaries in Belgium, Canada, France, Israel, Italy, Japan, the Netherlands, and Taiwan.
Reporting Segments and Business Units
For fiscal year 2025, the company reports its results in three reporting segments: (i) Networking, (ii) Materials, and (iii) Lasers.
The Networking segment leverages the company’s compound semiconductor technology platforms and deep knowledge of end-user applications for its key end markets to deliver differentiated components, modules, and subsystems.
The Materials segment is a market leader in engineered materials and optoelectronic devices, such as those based on ZnSe, ZnS, GaAs, InP, GaSb, and SiC.
The Lasers segment’s lasers and optics products serve industrial customers in both semiconductor and display capital equipment and precision manufacturing, and instrumentation customers in life sciences and scientific instrumentation.
Each of these segments develops and markets key products as described below.
Networking
Transceivers, systems, subsystems, modules, components, optics, and semiconductor devices for datacenter and communications applications.
Materials
Engineered materials, laser optics, thermoelectric components, and advanced ceramic and metal-matrix composite materials and products.
VCSELs, EELs, pump lasers, high-power lasers for materials processing, and ICs.
Lasers
Excimer lasers, solid-state lasers, CO2 lasers, and laser systems for a variety of industrial applications, including semiconductor capital equipment, display manufacturing, precision manufacturing, and scientific research.
Laser systems and subsystems.
Markets
Communications Market Group
Datacom Market Vertical. The company has been experiencing significant growth in AI and ML in the datacom market vertical.
At Coherent, the company has a complete portfolio of transceivers matched to the requirements set by AI and ML. These transceivers are protocol-agnostic, meaning the same transceiver hardware can support Ethernet and InfiniBand, as well as proprietary protocols for AI and ML, such as NVIDIA’s NVLink.
Over the years, the company has made strategic investments that give the company a unique level of vertical integration. The company not only design and manufacture the company’s transceivers internally, but the company also designs and manufactures many of the materials and components, including lasers, detectors, ICs, and passive optics. The company has in-house laser design and manufacturing capability for GaAs-based VCSELs, InP-based DMLs, EMLs, and CW lasers.
Coherent has multiple 6-inch GaAs VCSEL fabs in the U.S. and Europe. The company also has multiple InP fabs in the U.S. and Europe, and the company is moving to 6-inch wafer capability.
The company’s portfolio also includes silicon photonics and a broad array of CPO-enabling technologies.
Telecom Market Vertical. Coherent optical communications products and technologies enable next-generation high-speed optical transmission systems and transport networks, and datacenter solutions necessary to meet the accelerating global bandwidth demand.
The company is a global technology leader in optical communications, providing materials, subcomponents, components, modules, subsystems, and systems to optical component and module manufacturers, networking equipment manufacturers, datacenter operators, enterprises, and telecom service providers. The company designs products that meet the increasing demands for network bandwidth and data storage.
The company’s Telecom products include coherent transmission components and transceivers, as well as transport products, such as 980 nm and 14xx pump lasers, erbium-doped fiber amplifiers, passive components, OCM, OTDR, ROADM and Optical line systems.
The company’s proven experience in both transmission and transport allows the company to effectively address the emerging DCI market. The company’s optoelectronic components, transceivers, submodules, pluggable amplifiers, and configurable line cards are able to meet the requirements of low power consumption, compactness, ease of installation and operation, and cost savings, which are often mandatory features in the DCI market.
Industrial Market Group
Precision Manufacturing Market Vertical. The company’s Precision Manufacturing vertical encompasses a broad range of applications across very diverse markets. With complete verticality, from materials to turnkey laser solutions, the company intersects with any industrial laser process within the application areas of automotive manufacturing, medical device manufacturing, machine tools, consumer goods, and industrial electrical and electronics. The company’s portfolio of optics, components, lasers, and systems enables a wide variety of applications, including EV battery welding, fine processing of medical devices, additive manufacturing, high-temperature superconducting wires and tapes, and even bleaching of jeans.
Semiconductor Capital Equipment Market Vertical. Semiconductor capital equipment requires advanced materials to meet the need for tighter tolerances, enhanced thermal stability, faster wafer transfer speeds, and reduced stage settling times. The company’s metal-matrix composites and reaction-bonded ceramics enable these applications, thanks to their optimum combination of light weight, strength, hardness, and coefficient of thermal expansion.
The company’s lasers are widely used in various semiconductor processes such as solid-state lasers and excimer lasers for semiconductor inspection tasks, and CO2 lasers for wafer annealing. The company also offers a suite of lasers for a variety of advanced packaging applications, ranging from cutting, PCB and substrate drilling, and optical debonding to numerous laser marking tasks.
Display Capital Equipment Market Vertical. The company’s excimer laser-based annealing systems can improve precision, combining high-spatial precision and selectivity for LTPS OLED display production. The company’s CO2 lasers and UV ultrashort-pulsed lasers are used for cutting applications. Beyond OLED, the company is offering UV and DUV laser solutions for a broad range of applications to manufacture next-generation microLED displays.
Aerospace & Defense Market Vertical. Coherent aerospace and defense solutions enable mission-critical capabilities for applications in high-energy lasers; contested space; and intelligence, surveillance, and reconnaissance. The company’s Aerospace & Defense division maintains separate business development, IT infrastructure, accounting, finance, engineering, and manufacturing facilities in the United States with strictly controlled access; the division is dedicated to the company’s U.S. government-supported contracts.
Instrumentation Market Group
Life Sciences Market Vertical. Within the life sciences end market, the company focuses on instrumentation that integrates light- and/or thermal-management solutions. The company vertically integrates from the material level (with various crystals for medical laser applications, or ZnS materials for NIR and IR spectroscopy) to high-precision components, complex subassemblies, and even full subsystems. Applications within the biotechnology segment include research and diagnostic tools such as flow cytometry, genome sequencing, and PCR, to name a few. The company’s broad product portfolio delivers solutions covering illumination, light management, thermal management, sample loading, and detection. Visible-wavelength lasers and multicolored laser and LED engines provide low-noise, high-performance, reliable light sources.
Medical applications comprise instrumentation that is used in the direct treatment of patients and includes medical lasers, imaging, point-of-care wearables, and thermal-based treatment solutions. Coherent semiconductor laser bars and stacks are used in applications such as hair and wrinkle removal, and femtosecond lasers combined with excimer lasers are used for common procedures like LASIK.
Scientific Research Market Vertical. The company’s products include CW lasers for microscopy, advanced ultrafast-pulsed laser sources, and high-energy pulsed excimer gas lasers. These systems are sold to universities and research institutions across the globe for applications such as neuroscience and optogenetics.
Electronics Market Group
Consumer Electronics Market Vertical. The company manufactures GaAs VCSELs and VCSEL arrays, InP edge-emitting lasers and photo diodes, as well as specialty glass wafers for the consumer electronics market. The company’s VCSEL products leverage its 6-inch GaAs platform, combining the company’s epitaxial wafer growth and wafer fabrication capabilities. The company’s VCSELs are also widely deployed in datacenters and HDMI optical cables, as well as in vehicle steering wheels. Today, Coherent is one of the very few vertically integrated 6-inch VCSEL manufacturers with a proven track record in high-volume manufacturing of high-reliability, large multi-emitter VCSEL arrays designed for 3D sensing. The company is also one of the very few companies that have shipped InP diode lasers and photodiodes in high volume for consumer electronics applications; these are also manufactured in-house. An increasing number of consumer devices are coming on the market with embedded VCSELs, including multiple smartphones and tablets, AR/VR headsets, smart watches, and household robots.
In addition to VCSELs, the company’s products for the consumer electronics market include wafer-scale optics, diffraction gratings, thermoelectric coolers, driver ICs, and substrates for sensing and AR/VR applications.
Automotive Market Vertical. The company is a global leader in SiC substrates for power electronics that improve the energy efficiency of electric and hybrid-electric vehicles. The company’s industry-leading semiconductor lasers, optics, and materials can be leveraged for LiDAR systems embedded in advanced driver-assistance systems (ADAS) for autonomous vehicles. LiDAR sensors enable ADAS to perform functions such as emergency braking, distance warning, and adaptive cruise control.
Wireless Market Vertical. The company is a market leader in the technology development and large-volume manufacturing of 100 mm, 150 mm, and the industry’s first 200 mm semi-insulating SiC substrates. These substrates are utilized by customers worldwide to manufacture GaN-on-SiC HEMT RF power amplifier devices that are embedded in remote radio heads in 4G and 5G wireless base stations.
Sales and Marketing
The company markets its products and services through a direct sales force and through representatives and distributors around the world. The company’s market strategy is focused on understanding its customers’ requirements and building market awareness and acceptance of the company’s products and services. New products are continually being developed and introduced to the company’s new and established customers in all markets.
The company has centralized its worldwide sales and strategic marketing functions. Sales offices have been aligned to best serve and distribute products to the company’s worldwide customer base.
The company’s sales force develops effective communications with its OEM and end-user customers worldwide. Products are actively marketed through key account relationships, personal selling, select advertising, attendance at trade shows, digital marketing, and customer partnerships. The company’s sales force includes a highly trained technical sales support team to assist customers in designing, testing, and qualifying the company’s products as key components of the company’s customers’ systems.
The company does business with a number of customers in the aerospace and defense industry, who in turn generally contract with a governmental entity, typically a U.S. government agency.
The company had two customers who each contributed more than 10% of revenue during fiscal 2025.
Strategy
The company’s strategy is to grow businesses with world-class lasers, optics, and engineered materials to advance the company’s customers’ strategies, reach new markets through innovative technologies and platforms, and enable new applications in large and growing markets. A key strategy of the company is to develop and manufacture high-performance materials, and in certain cases, components incorporating those materials, that are differentiated from those produced by the company’s competitors. The company focuses on providing components that are critical to the heart of its customers’ products that serve the applications mentioned above.
The company continues to grow the number and size of its key accounts. A significant portion of the company’s business is based on sales orders with market leaders, which enables the company’s forward planning and production efficiencies. The company intends to continue capitalizing and executing on this proven model, participating effectively in the growth of the markets discussed above, and continuing the company’s focus on operational excellence as the company executes its primary business strategies.
Import and Export Compliance
The company is required to comply with all relevant import/export and economic sanctions laws and regulations, including:
The import regulations administered by the U.S. Customs and Border Protection;
The International Traffic in Arms Regulations (ITAR) administered by the U.S. Department of State, Directorate of Defense Trade Controls, which among other things impose licensing requirements on the export from the United States of certain defense articles and defense services, generally including items that are specially designed or adapted for a military application and/or listed on the United States Munitions List;
The Export Administration Regulations (EAR) administered by the U.S. Department of Commerce, Bureau of Industry and Security, which among other things impose licensing requirements on certain dual-use goods, technology, and software; and
The regulations administered by the U.S. Department of the Treasury, Office of Foreign Assets Control, implementing economic sanctions against designated countries, governments, and persons based on the U.S. foreign policy and national security considerations.
Patents
As of June 30, 2025, the company had a total of approximately 3,100 patents globally.
Research and Development
The company’s research and development expenditures were $582 million for the year ended June 30, 2025.
History
The company was founded in 1971. It was incorporated in Pennsylvania in 1971. The company was formerly known as II-VI Incorporated and changed its name to Coherent Corp. in 2022.
