Corning Cuts the Clad

CORNING, N.Y. -- Corning Incorporated (NYSE:GLW) today introduced a suite of reduced clad and bend insensitive photonic fibers that address industry-wide demand for miniaturized components. Corning’s portfolio of PureMode™ Reduced Clad (RC) Photonic Fibers now includes 80-micron cladding diameter for high index, erbium-doped, single-mode and polarization maintaining fibers. Reducing the cladding diameter enables Corning customers to reduce the package size in next generation couplers, compact optical modules, and small form factor EDFAs by 30 to 40 percent.Manufactured with Corning’s patented outside vapor deposition process, and based on decades of experience in 80-micron fiber development, PureMode RC Photonic Fibers set the industry standard for consistent, precise geometry specifications. Corning is committed to providing world-class reliability support for handling and deployment of 80-micron fiber and offers technical support for splicing to 125-micron fibers.Corning is also introducing a newly designed bend insensitive fiber. The PureMode HI 1060 FLEX Photonic Fiber is re-engineered for fused biconic taper (FBT) component manufacturing and all bend sensitive applications in C-and L-band applications. Combining ultra low bending loss with low excess loss and excellent spliceability, PureMode HI 1060 FLEX enables higher yields in the production of premium grade components.“Component miniaturization is a reality in the industry, and our new fibers are optimized to meet these stringent requirements, said James J. Haberstroh, PureMode product manager, Corning Photonic Technologies. “With the development of our next generation FBT coupler fibers, we are continuing to innovate on our patented fiber designs.”Corning Inc.