Our capabilities include sophisticated technologies that deliver high-performance, versatile, and durable solutions.
 

Materials Development
With over 150 years of materials science experience, Corning leverages its unmatched understanding of fundamental glass science to develop materials to meet market needs, including glass ceramics, the first low-loss optical fiber, ULE® Ultra Low Expansion Glass, HPFS® ArF Grade Fused Silica glass materials, and photochromic glass.

Specialty Glass Melting
Corning has the unique ability to melt a wide range of custom glasses in relatively small volumes, including over 60 custom glass compositions.

Forming
Glass forming capabilities include outside vapor deposition, fiber draw, flame deposition, pressing, sagging, sealing, tube forming, sheet draw, and fusion draw.

Optical Design
Corning partners with its customers to design high-performance precision optic components.  Our extensive optical design experience includes opto-mechanical thermal and structural analysis, thin-film coating design, metrology, and testing.

Finishing
Finishing capabilities include abrasive water jet machining for lightweight core structure, computer numerical control (CNC) machining, specialized grinding equipment, diamond turning, precision metal machining, magnetorheological finishing, and ion beam etching.

Diamond Turning Technology
The Corning Specialty Materials facility in Keene, NH is one of the world’s largest diamond turning manufacturing operations. Our proprietary diamond turning process produces surfaces with drastically-reduced or eliminated diffraction effects typically associated with diamond turning; eliminating  the need for post polishing.

Coating
Corning specializes in high-end, ultra-precise coatings and offers a variety of over 200 proprietary coating designs covering the full spectrum from deep ultraviolet (DUV) to infrared (IR), wavelength-specific blocking coatings, and high-end transmissive coatings.

Optical Assembly
Corning delivers complete opto-mechanical sub-assemblies including design, materials, components, and optical sub-assemblies.