Corning Celebrates 40 Years of Optical Fiber
23 Marzo 2010 - 1:30PM
Business Wire
Corning Incorporated (NYSE: GLW) today launches a year-long
anniversary celebration of the company’s world-changing invention
of low-loss optical fiber. Corning’s 1970 breakthrough made the
theoretical promise of fiber-optic technology a reality and
revolutionized the communications industry.
Corning kicks off the celebration at OFC/NFOEC 2010 in San
Diego. In honor of the occasion, the Corning researchers
responsible for the discovery—Dr. Robert Maurer, Dr. Peter Schultz,
and Dr. Donald Keck—will be in attendance today at Corning’s booth.
Corning will also provide its perspective on the current state of
the global optical fiber industry during a special panel
discussion.
“The invention of low-loss optical fiber in 1970 helped launch
the communications age,” said Martin J. Curran, senior vice
president and general manager, Corning Optical Fiber. “Today,
optical-fiber innovation is as vibrant as ever. Over the past four
decades, Corning has built on its groundbreaking invention by
continuing to develop new fiber technologies for submarine,
long-distance, enterprise, and fiber-to-the-home networks that
enable faster, better, and more cost-effective communication.”
In 1970, Drs. Maurer, Schultz, and Keck reported the first
optical fiber with loss below 20 dB per kilometer, which
demonstrated the feasibility of fiber optics for
telecommunications. Corning followed that breakthrough by inventing
processes to manufacture optical fiber in mass scale, enabling the
deployment of low-cost, high-capacity optical transport systems
that have become an integral part of our daily lives.
Today, optical fiber transmits data, voice, and video at speeds
unimaginable in 1970. Corning currently offers optical fibers with
a loss level of less than 0.17 dB/km, and researchers continue to
develop new innovations that will enable fiber to go faster and
farther than ever before.
Drs. Maurer, Schultz, and Keck will be available at Corning’s
booth #2141 on Tuesday, March 23 from 10 a.m. until noon PST.
Brad Boersen, director of business strategy, Corning Optical
Fiber, will provide an outlook on the 2010 global optical-fiber
market during the Market Watch: State of the Optical Industry panel
on Tuesday, March 23 from noon until 2 p.m. Boersen will detail a
worldwide optical fiber market that is now approximately 40 percent
greater than at the peak of the Internet bubble in 2001.
About Corning Incorporated
Corning Incorporated (www.corning.com) is the world leader in
specialty glass and ceramics. Drawing on more than 150 years of
materials science and process engineering knowledge, Corning
creates and makes keystone components that enable high-technology
systems for consumer electronics, mobile emissions control,
telecommunications and life sciences. Our products include glass
substrates for LCD televisions, computer monitors and laptops;
ceramic substrates and filters for mobile emission control systems;
optical fiber, cable, hardware & equipment for
telecommunications networks; optical biosensors for drug discovery;
and other advanced optics and specialty glass solutions for a
number of industries including semiconductor, aerospace, defense,
astronomy and metrology.
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