Corning OptiFocus Lensed Fiber Receives 2002 Technology Award from Fiberoptic Product News.Business Editors/High-Tech Writers 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 2003 CORNING, N.Y.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--March 24, 2003 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) ) announced today that its OptiFocus(TM) Lensed Fiber was honored with the receipt of Fiberoptic Product News magazine's 2002 Gold Technology Award. Represented by Dr. Ljerka Ukrainczyk, Corning was presented with the award today at the publication's annual "Technology Awards" luncheon held in conjunction with the Optical Fiber Communications Conference (OFC) in Atlanta, Georgia. OptiFocus Lensed Fiber was nominated for the annual award by the editorial staff of Fiberoptic Product News, who, during their selection process, took into account the product's design, technological innovation and overall usefulness. OptiFocus was then selected as the technology award winner for the cable category by the publications' readership base. OptiFocus Lensed Fiber is a family of monolithic devices for collimating and focusing light in a wide range of components such as MEMS-based switches and variable optical attenuators An optical attenuator is a device used to reduce the power level of an optical signal, either in free space or in an optical fiber. They are commonly used in fiber optic communications. , dense wave division multiplexers and various other active and passive optical components. With its advanced design, OptiFocus enables simpler assembly and packaging, device miniaturization min·i·a·tur·ize tr.v. min·i·a·tur·ized, min·i·a·tur·iz·ing, min·i·a·tur·iz·es To plan or make on a greatly reduced scale. min , component integration, and superior performance. OptiFocus products are configured with mode-field diameters as small as three microns and as large as seventy microns. The Fiberoptic Product News award is the second industry recognition that OptiFocus has received since it was first introduced in September 2001. In October 2002, OptiFocus Lensed Fiber was presented with the R&D 100 Award for being one of the 100 most technologically significant products of the year. About Corning Incorporated Established in 1851, Corning Incorporated (www.corning.com) creates leading-edge technologies that offer growth opportunities in markets that fuel the world's economy. Corning manufactures optical fiber, cable and photonic Dealing with light (photons). See photon and photonics. products in its Telecommunications segment. Corning's Technologies segment manufactures high-performance display glass and products for the environmental, life sciences, and semiconductor markets. |
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