Specialty Fiber

Our Versatile Fibers Serve Many Industries

Corning specialty bers are used in a wide range of applications,

from components in the well-established telecommunications

market to the bers required in emerging markets, like medical,

lighting, sensing applications, datacoms/cloud and beyond.

We can design custom bers to support entirely new markets

and innovations where bers will be an essential component.

Our bers are designed and chosen by customers to enable

next-gen networks that require higher data rates (100, 200, 400,

800G), increased data transmission (coherent components and

other technologies), and increased densication (reduced size

and bend insensitive).

Our strateg is to look at ber — the actual glass core and

cladding, and the protective coatings — in terms of a matrix

where each or all can be rapidly customized at our customer’s

direction. We can do this in terms of size, optical properties,

temperature/environment resistance, bend insensitivity,

operating wavelength, etc.

If you don’t see a particular ber in our catalog that meets your

needs, please contact us to discuss your unique requirements.

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Titania-Clad Fiber

One of the newest additions to our portfolio, Corning’s

Titania-Clad ber, leads the next generation of bend-

insensitive bers. Our highly engineered ber design enables

bending to a 2.5 mm bend radius with low loss. With our

customers’ needs in mind, a layer of Titania in the cladding

ensures mechanical reliability in tight-bend applications

and small packaging sizes. This ber oers world-class

durability and fatigue resistance for components such as

pigtails, erbium-doped ber ampliers (EDFAs), and other

wavelength division multiplexing (WDM) components.

Polarization Maintaining Fiber

PANDA Polarization Maintaining (PM) bers are designed

with high-performance properties, including excellent

birefringence and low attenuation. Corning oers the

broadest portfolio of PANDA PM bers from wavelengths

of 400-1550 nm and designs such as high NA and ame-

retardant coatings. Our newest PANDA ber features a

reduced cladding with a dual window, 1310 and 1550,

operating wavelength.

Harsh Environment Fiber

Corning High-Temperature bers are designed for applications

requiring improved fatigue resistance, high usable strength,

and excellent resistance to higher temperatures and hydrogen

permeation. We oer a single-mode or multimode core with

a high-temperature acrylate layer. An optional hermetic

coating is available for many of the ber types listed here,

delivering signicant advantages with respect to mechanical

reliability and resistance to hydrogen-induced optical

attenuation degradation.

High-Index Fiber

Corning’s suite of High-Index bers are used across

telecommunications, aerospace, and industrial markets

in applications such as WDM couplers, splitters, and pump

pigtails. The High-Index bers are manufactured with

Corning’s patented OVD process, which results in highly

consistent glass and excellent reliability. We have designed

High-Index bers for a range of wavelengths from 780

to 1550 nm.

Corning

Erbium-Doped Fiber

Manufactured with our patented outside vapor deposition

(OVD) process, Corning

Erbium-Doped specialty bers set the

worldwide standard for uniformity and reliability. In typical

high-performance ampliers built with our Erbium-doped

ber, gain consistency is maximized due to spectral uniformity

of the ber, eliminating the need for frequent adjustments to

gain-attening lter design. Variations in gain spectrum and

pump power requirements are greatly reduced, which makes

for a more predictable amplier manufacturing process and

translates directly to lower costs for customers. Erbium-doped

ber designs are available for conventional C-band, L-band,

and reduced-clad applications.

Special Single-Mode Fiber

Corning’s suite of special single-mode bers include:

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Low wavelength RGB400 single-mode ber for

sensors in Red-Green-Blue wavelengths

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Corning

ClearCurve

photonic optical ber for tight

bending applications

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RC single-mode optical ber, which is an 80 µm clad

design for small-form-factor application

For the full product information sheets or more information, please contact us or see our website:

Email: specialtyber@corning.com

Tel: +1 607 974 9974

Corning.com/SpecialtyFiber

Talk to us today about your specialty single-mode and multimode ber needs!

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