Aerospace, Defense, Architecture, and Optics Technologies | Glass Materials Technologies | Corning

In addition to serving our five key markets, Corning is constantly evolving to participate in new industries that are tied to significant growth trends. Our versatile capabilities and extraordinary materials offer exciting options in aerospace and defense, architecture and design, and optics.

Aerospace and Defense

Aerospace and Defense

Technologies for a more intelligent world.

Technologies for a more intelligent world.

Interior Architecture

Interior Architecture

Spaces and experiences reinvented with glass.

Spaces and experiences reinvented with glass.

Optics

Optics

Innovation, collaboration, and precision.

Innovation, collaboration, and precision.

Aerospace and Defense

Aerospace and Defense

Technologies for a More Intelligent World

For decades, Corning has supported the aerospace and defense industries with the latest technologies to explore and monitor outer space and the Earth itself. These draw on our world-leading, broad expertise in materials science and optics. We’ve worked with customers on some of their toughest challenges, including: high-purity fused silica windows for all of the manned spacecraft in U.S. history, durable and heat-resistant missile nose cones for the U.S. military, and glass at the heart of telescopes and photographic systems. 

Missile Domes and Radomes

Missile Domes and Radomes

Tough materials that stand up to thermal shock.

Tough materials that stand up to thermal shock.

Spectral Imaging

Spectral Imaging

Imaging systems from the visible to infrared.

Imaging systems from the visible to infrared.

Telescope Mirrors and Lens Blanks

Telescope Mirrors and Lens Blanks

Capturing light to probe the secrets of deep space.

Capturing light to probe the secrets of deep space.

Architecture and Design Technologies

Architecture and Design Technologies

Spaces and Experiences Reinvented with Glass

Today’s most striking designs have one thing in common: Glass. More and more, designers are embracing glass for its beauty, clean lines, and versatility. Sleek, tough glass is also the perfect substrate for high-tech coatings that react to light and sound, as well as to support sensors and semiconductors. With our expertise in research, materials, and processing, we can provide many options to our architecture and design customers for many phases of their projects. Corning continues to offer advantaged materials in this space, and as display technologies advance, our capabilities are expanding to meet their evolving requirements.

Hand holds loops of lighted fibers, glowing in dark

Corning® Fibrance® Light-Diffusing Fiber

Corning® Fibrance® Light-Diffusing Fiber

Stylish color outside the lines.

Stylish color outside the lines.

Corning® Glass for Interior Architecture

Corning® Glass for Interior Architecture

Achieve your creative vision without compromise, and with greater design freedom.

Achieve your creative vision without compromise, and with greater design freedom.

A Closer Look at SnapCab® Innovative Office Solutions

A Closer Look at SnapCab® Innovative Office Solutions

Several Corning facilities in the U.S. are featuring SnapCab® Pod office spaces of the future and SnapCab® Portal collaboration spaces featuring Corning® Gorilla® Glass.

Several Corning facilities in the U.S. are featuring SnapCab® Pod office spaces of the future and SnapCab® Portal collaboration spaces featuring Corning® Gorilla® Glass.

Optics Solutions

Optics Solutions

Innovation, Collaboration, and Precision

Corning’s diverse advanced optics portfolio reflects our deep understanding of the properties of light, its interaction with matter, and the instruments used to detect it. For decades, we have been a trusted optics collaborator with leaders in a wide range of markets, including aerospace and defense, semiconductor materials and optics, telecommunications, and more. We offer a diverse set of optics solutions to full complex systems. Customer collaboration is the hallmark of our operations.

Hyperspectral Imaging

Hyperspectral Imaging

Imaging systems from the visible to infrared.

Imaging systems from the visible to infrared.

Corning® Fibrance® Light-Diffusing Fiber

Corning® Fibrance® Light-Diffusing Fiber

Corning® Fibrance® Light-Diffusing Fiber can outline a runner’s headphones with a colorful strand of light, or line a hospital room floor with a gentle glow to guide you along.

Corning® Fibrance® Light-Diffusing Fiber can outline a runner’s headphones with a colorful strand of light, or line a hospital room floor with a gentle glow to guide you along.

Medical Imaging

Medical Imaging

Shedding light on early-stage disease detection.

Shedding light on early-stage disease detection.