Corning Introduces New Hermetic Single-Mode Specialty Fiber

Corning Introduces New Hermetic Single-Mode Specialty Fiber

April 02, 2007

Specifically Designed for Applications Requiring Improved
Fatigue Resistance, High-Usable Strength, and Excellent
Resistance to Hydrogen Permeation into Optical Fibers

 
    CORNING, N.Y., April 2 /Xinhua-PRNewswire/ Corning
Incorporated (NYSE: GLW) announced on March 27 the
introduction of a new Corning hermetic single-mode
specialty fiber. This fiber offers improved fatigue
resistance and high-usable strength for numerous
applications, including fiber optic sensors and towed
arrays. The properties of the hermetic layer improve the
fatigue performance of the fiber by five times compared
with standard single-mode fiber while maintaining identical
optical quality to Corning SMF-28 optical fiber.

    Corning's specially designed hermetic layer provides a
protective barrier to help shield the glass from exposure
to hydrogen, water and corrosive chemicals through a thin
layer of amorphous carbon that is bonded directly to the
glass surface of the optical fiber. This resistance to
hydrogen permeation is critical for use in harsh
environments such as in undersea deployments or down-hole
oil wells.

    The new hermetic fiber is manufactured through
Corning's patented outside vapor deposition (OVD) process,
which yields unparalleled consistency in optical
performance and high reliability. The batch-to-batch
consistency, quality and reliability resulting from the OVD
process enables Corning customers to optimize their
operational costs.

    Hermetic single-mode specialty fiber is part of
Corning's extensive portfolio of differentiated specialty
fiber products that generate high-value for customers.
These products and capabilities include polarization
control, rare earth-doped gain fibers, power delivery,
bend-insensitive fibers, reduced-diameter fibers, band-gap
fibers, harsh-environment/high-temperature fibers and
innovative custom solutions.

    Corning will showcase a full Specialty Materials
product portfolio for the telecommunications industry,
including various specialty fibers, polarizing glass and
lensed fiber, during the 2007 OFC/NFOEC conference from
March 25-30 in Anaheim, California. For more information,
visit the Corning booth, #2549, in the Anaheim Convention
Center or Corning's Web site at
http://www.corning.com/specialtymaterials .

    About Corning Incorporated

    Corning Incorporated ( http://www.corning.com ) is the
world leader in specialty glass and ceramics. Drawing on
more than 150 years of materials science and process
engineering knowledge, Corning creates and makes keystone
components that enable high-technology systems for consumer
electronics, mobile emissions control, telecommunications
and life sciences. Our products include glass substrates
for LCD televisions, computer monitors and laptops; ceramic
substrates and filters for mobile emission control systems;
optical fiber, cable, hardware & equipment for
telecommunications networks; optical biosensors for drug
discovery; and other advanced optics and specialty glass
solutions for a number of industries including
semiconductor, aerospace, defense, astronomy and
metrology.



    For more information, please contact:

     Elijah A. Baity
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     Lydia Lu
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