Corning Develops Unique Fiber Holding Device.Business/High Tech Editors Optical Fiber Communications 2002 CORNING, N.Y.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--March 15, 2002 Corning Incorporated Corning Incorporated NYSE: GLW is an American manufacturer of glass, ceramics and related materials, primarily for industrial and scientific applications. The company was known until 1989 as Corning Glass Works. (NYSE NYSE See: New York Stock Exchange :GLW GLW Glasgow Airport (UK) GLW Gross Laden Weight GLW Good Lady Wife (Australia) ), a leading supplier of optical fiber and components in the telecommunications industry, today announced the development of a new technology, a more simplified and versatile approach to optical fiber holding and precise fiber alignment. The Corning Polymer Gripper is a one-of-a-kind fiber holding device that allows fibers to be snapped into place with sub-micron precision. The photolithography A lithographic technique used to transfer the design of circuit paths onto printed circuit boards as well as the circuit paths and electronic elements of a chip onto a wafer's surface. A photomask is created with the design for each layer of the board or wafer (chip). process used to form the polymer grippers provides precise fiber to fiber tolerances while allowing flexibility in the design of the product. Gripper size, configuration and material substrate can be tailored to customer specification. These devices are used in a variety of applications such as splices, fiber arrays, passive alignment, and pre-positioning fibers during device manufacture. Samples of this innovative product are available immediately and are currently under evaluation by customers. "We are very excited about this breakthrough and the opportunity to provide the telecommunications marketplace with a more manageable solution for interconnection and alignment of optical fiber and components," stated Mark Beck, business manager, Corning Photonic Materials. "We are making great strides in offering a well-rounded materials platform to the photonics industry." At the Optical Fiber Communications (OFC OFC Office OFC Officer OFC Of Course OFC Oxygen Free Copper OFC Oceania Football Confederation (soccer) OFC Optical Fiber Cable OFC Optical Fiber Communications OFC Optical Fiber Conference ) Conference, Corning Photonic Materials will be displaying the polymer gripper technology in conjunction with a new fiber array and collimator collimator (kol´imātur), n a diaphragm or system of diaphragms made of an absorbent material and designed to define the dimensions and direction of a beam of radiation. array. Also on display will be Photonic Materials' Polarcor(TM) glass polarizers, OptiFocus(TM) lensed fibers, SMILE(TM) lens arrays and QuantumFocus(TM) gradient index lenses. Established in 1851, Corning Incorporated (www.corning.com) creates leading-edge technologies for the fastest-growing markets of the world's economy. Corning manufactures optical fiber, cable and photonic products for the telecommunications industry; and high-performance displays and components for television, information technology and other communications-related industries. The company also uses advanced materials Advanced Materials is a leading peer-reviewed materials science journal published every two weeks. Advanced Materials includes Communications, Reviews, and Feature Articles from the cutting edge of materials science, including topics in chemistry, physics, to manufacture products for scientific, semiconductor and environmental markets. Corning revenues for 2001 were $6.3 billion. |
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