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Specialty Fiber and Glass Polarizers

Specialty Fiber and Glass Polarizers

Specialty optical fibers and glass polarizers for telecommunications, sensing, industrial, and medical industries.

Changing the Way You See and Use Fiber

Changing the Way You See Fiber

Corning’s Specialty Fibers are used in a wide range of applications including fibers required for components in the well-established telecommunications market to the fibers required in emerging markets like medical, lighting and sensing applications and beyond. We can design custom fibers to support entirely new markets and innovations where fibers will be an essential component.

Our strategy is to look at fiber — the actual glass core and cladding, and the protective coatings — in terms of a matrix where each or all can be rapidly customized at our customers direction. We can do this in terms of size, optical properties, temperature/environment resistance, bend insensitivity, operating wavelength, etc.

If you don’t see a particular fiber in our catalog that meets your needs, please contact us to discuss your unique requirements.

Our specialty fibers serve the following markets: aerospace and defense, geophysical, harsh environment, medical, sensing and lighting.

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Our Specialty Fiber Capabilities

Applications

Applications

Sensing: Know-How for Quick Response

More often optical fibers are used for communications as well as sensing elements in a wide variety of growing applications. Optical fiber has inherent advantages over other types of sensors given they are immune to EMI, have a wide temperature range usage, and can be multiplexed. We understand that what makes an ideal fiber for communications, might not be ideal as a sensing fiber. So we develop and manufacture fibers with unique properties to match the application. We have the deep knowledge and capabilities to rapidly customize the glass and/or coatings of the fiber to optimize performance to fit our customer’s required needs.

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High Temp/Harsh Environment Fiber
Special Single-Mode Fiber

Telecommunications: High-Performance

Our groundbreaking telecommunications innovations provide customers with solutions that bring high-quality broadband capabilities right to your doorstep. Customers choose our fibers first and foremost for their renowned reliability and consistency. While maintaining these key parameters, we also have the ability to go from concept to product rapidly– something our customers demand in a dynamic industry.

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Erbium-Doped Fiber
High-Index Fiber/Bend Insensitive
PANDA/Polarization Maintaining Fiber
Special Single Mode Fiber

Lighting: Unleash the Glow

We have been in lighting since producing the first glass lightbulbs in 1879 for Thomas Edison. Now we have invented a new lighting product called Corning® Fibrance™ Light-Diffusing Fiber, a glass optical fiber optimized for thin, colorful aesthetic lighting. Unleash the brilliant design possibilities with this emerging lighting technology. Its unique attributes make it relevant for numerous applications. It is offered as a single strand of fiber or a bundle.

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Corning® Fibrance™ Light-Diffusing Fiber

Medical: Fiber Optic Probes

Corning’s high performance fiber optic probe consists of a unique optic component and torque cable design.

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Medical Optics