Editorial Contact: Leen Simonet
408-764-4161

For Release: 01/10/2013
No. 1347

Coherent, Inc. Announces Live Webcast of First Quarter Fiscal Year 2013 Results

Coherent, Inc. (Santa Clara, CA, Nasdaq: COHR) today announced that it plans to report first quarter fiscal year 2013 results after market close on

January 24, 2013. The Company will host a conference call to discuss its financial results at 1:30 P.M. Pacific (4:30 P.M. Eastern) on January 24, 2013. A listen-only broadcast of the conference call can be accessed on the Company's website at either http://www.coherent.com/Investors/ or http://www.earnings.com.

 For those who are not available to listen to the live broadcast, the call will be archived for approximately three months on both web sites.

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. Please direct any questions to Leen Simonet, Chief Financial Officer at 408-764-4161. For more information about Coherent, visit the Company's Web site at http://www.coherent.com/ for product and financial updates.

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