Corning, Inc.

Corning Incorporated, world leader in specialty glass and ceramics, is internationally known for its innovations and accomplishments in optical fiber technology. Corning Incorporated applies science and engineering to enable high-technology systems in areas such as consumer electronics, telecommunications and life sciences.

Corning Incorporated’s latest innovation in optical fiber technology overcomes the signal loss inherent with standard optical fiber when it is bent around tight corners, which is a hindrance to installing fiber cables in multiple dwelling units such as apartments or condominiums. Corning’s groundbreaking ClearCurve® optical fiber is 100 times more flexible than standard optical fiber but with virtually no signal loss. The bend performance is achieved by using engineered “nanoStructures” in a controlled mesh configuration within the fiber cladding. By making fundamental changes in the way light travels in the fiber, Corning was able to trap the light in the core of the fiber, where it is supposed to travel and virtually eliminating signal loss when the fiber bends. ClearCurve was introduced to market in 2007 and was named one of Time magazine’s “Best Inventions of the Year.”

Among Corning’s many pioneering advances in optical fiber technology, it invented the first low-loss glass optical fiber, which reduced attenuation loss and made glass fibers practical for telecommunications systems, and the “large effective area fiber” (LEAF), which implemented a larger core size to reduce nonlinear effects, enabling rapid advancements in long haul telecommunications systems. With headquarters located in Corning, New York, Corning Incorporated continues to provide real-world solutions to life through its research and manufacturing capabilities.