IPG Photonics to supply fiber lasers to U.S. Navy

OXFORD, Mass., 3 Sept. 1007. IPG Photonics Corp. won a $3.8 million contract from the U.S. Navy to supply the Naval Warfare Surface Center with a 44-kilowatt fiber laser system.

The contract, representing the first large fiber laser system to the U.S. Navy, calls for the delivery of eight commercial 5.5-kilowatt fiber lasers from September to December 2007.

The fiber lasers will be manufactured at IPG's facility in Oxford, Mass.