Corning Unveils Breakthrough in DWDM Filter Components; New Packaging Technology Doubles Network Density by Reducing the Number of Components Required in DWDM Systems.Business Editors CORNING, N.Y.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Oct. 1, 2001 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) ) today announced a new micro-optic packaging technology that will dramatically reduce overall installation costs of Dense Wavelength Division Multiplexing See WDM. (DWDM (Dense WDM) The term given to wavelength division multiplexing (WDM) when significantly more channels were being added. Since WDM is increasingly more "dense" all the time, both terms are used synonymously. See WDM. DWDM - wavelength division multiplexing ) communication systems, while improving performance. Corning's MultiPort(TM) technology makes double use of each DWDM filter, dramatically increasing the density for multiplexing and demultiplexing channels. This innovation is suited for thin film filters as well as other micro-optic platforms. "This technology can radically change the way our customers design solutions because it addresses a key concern - optimizing the performance of optical components to reduce network cost," said Ralf Faber, vice president and general manager, Micro-Optic Component Products. "Using MultiPort technology, Corning has submitted to customers fully compliant and operational samples with a 50% reduction in component count." Corning's MultiPort technology is based on a revolutionary technique which uses innovative precision alignment to enable multiple independent optical paths through the same filter, simultaneously. This new device offers the same performance as a standard micro-optic package, but one MultiPort component does the work of two conventional devices. Like standard micro-optic packages, MultiPort technology can be used for narrowband, wideband, or bandsplitter thin-film components as well as integrated DWDM modules. "This development has immediate implications for metropolitan networks, which are extremely price sensitive," said Gerald J. Fine, executive vice president, Corning Photonic Technologies. "Corning, in the past 12 months, has pioneered micro-optic packaging techniques, first with automation at Samsung Corning Micro-Optics and now with this new MultiPort design." The MultiPort technology was invented at Corning Advanced Photonic Technologies in Garden Grove, California Garden Grove is a city centrally located in northern Orange County, California, United States. As of 2004, the city population was 170,000 people. California State Route 22, also known as the Garden Grove Freeway, passes through the city from east to west. , the same facility that enabled automation through precision optical design of micro-optic components. This design further advances Corning's ability to use state of the art robotics to increase performance, yield and reliability of DWDM packaged components. Qualified manufacturing for MultiPort components is scheduled to begin by the end of the year. Corning will hold a live demonstration of a MultiPort device, Oct 1-4 during the European Conference on Optical Communications Optical communications The transmission of speech, data, video, and other information by means of the visible and the infrared portion of the electromagnetic spectrum. (ECOC ECOC European Conference on Optical Communications ECOC Error Correcting Output Codes ECOC Experimental Combat Operations Center ECOC Enhanced Combat Operation Center ECOC Emotional Cycle of Change ) 2001 in Amsterdam. About Corning Incorporated 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 2000 were $7.1 billion. |
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