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For Release: 01/07/2013
No. 1346

Coherent, Inc. to Present at the 15th Annual Needham Growth Conference

Coherent, Inc. (Santa Clara, CA, NASDAQ: COHR), today announced that its Chief Executive Officer, John Ambroseo, is scheduled to present at the 15th Annual Needham Growth Conference  in New York on Tuesday, January 15, 2013 at 4:50 p.m. Eastern Time.

A live webcast of the presentation will be available at http://www.coherent.com/Investors/ andhttp://wsw.com/webcast/needham55/cohr/.

Founded in 1966, Coherent, Inc. is a world leader in providing photonics based solutions to the commercial and scientific research markets and part of the Standard & Poor's SmallCap 600 Index and the Russell 2000 Index. For more information about Coherent, visit the company's website at http://www.coherent.com/ for product and financial updates.

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