Advanced Optics Markets
Advanced Optics Markets
Corning is one of very few manufacturers with deep capabilities in materials science, optical design, shaping, coating, finishing, and assembly. For customers, this means reduced complexity, shortened manufacturing cycles, and ultimately, increased value.
Corning provides specialty materials solutions for the following markets:
Aerospace and Defense
Integrated advanced optical sensor solutions and complete opto-mechanical solutions for aerospace and defense applications.
Products include:
- Custom Optical Components
- EOIR Systems
- Hyperspectral Imaging
- Opto-Mechanical Assemblies
- Telescope Mirror and Lens Blanks
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Analytic Instruments
Industry leading metrology instrumentation solutions for the semiconductor, data storage, aerospace and defense, flat panel display inspection, and industrial markets.
Products include:
- Tropel® FlatMaster® Systems
- Tropel® FlatMaster® MSP Systems
- Tropel® FlatMaster® MSP 300 Wafer Systems
- Tropel® UltraFlatTM Systems
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Astronomy
Glass materials, surfaces and light management applications for large-size blanks and optics used in both ground and space-based astronomy applications.
Products include:
- Glass Polarizers — PolarcorTM
- HPFS® ArF Grade Fused Silica
- Telescope Mirror Blanks
- ULE® Ultra Low Expansion Glass
Display
Corning Advanced Optics manufacturers precision optical systems for inspecting the patterned glass used in flat-panel televisions, cell phones and other consumer electronics. Additionally Advanced Optics offers laser cutting systems used to cut display glass and other brittle materials.
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Industrial
Diversified glass and glass ceramic materials for various industrial uses, like radiation shielding glass and machinable glass ceramic.
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Lighting
Corning has been in lighting since producing the first glass light bulbs in 1879 for Thomas Edison. Now Corning has invented a new lighting product made of glass fiber! This new fiber is extremely thin and bright. There are numerous applications where the new lighting technology can be used because of its unique attributes. This new product is offered as a single strand of fiber or a bundle.
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Medical
Many of Corning’s products are used in the medical and life sciences market space from fiber & components to opto-mechanical modules and assemblies. Our capabilities to design and manufacture products used in this space align well with the highly technical demands of the market.
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Ophthalmic
Technologically advanced materials and customer-driven solutions for the ophthalmic industry and selected optics markets. Read more about Ophthalmic
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Semiconductor
Optical materials, precision optics, optical-based metrology instruments, carriers and interposer substrates for 3D-IC packaging, and technical microlithography solutions for the semiconductor industry.
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Telecommunications
New and innovative specialty optical fibers for a wide range of growing markets in applications such as telecommunications components, fiber optic sensors and gyroscopes, high power fiber lasers and medical devices.
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