Corning Incorporated

Corning Glass Works

Dale Robert Powers

Dana Craig Bookbinder

Xin Chen

Huiqing Wu

Ming-Jun Li

George Edward Berkey

Jianguo Wang

Chunfeng Zhou

A Joseph Antos

Pushkar Tandon

Daniel Warren Hawtof

Richard Michael Fiacco

William Anthony Whedon

John T Brown

Christopher Scott Thomas

Daniel Aloysius Nolan

Scott Robertson Bickham

Karl William Koch, Iii

Douglas Munroe Beall

Douglas Clippinger Allan

James Andrew West

Curtis Robert Fekety

Adam J G Ellison

Stuart Gray

Todd Parrish St Clair

Mark Alan Lewis

Yunfeng Gu

Michael B Cain

Keith Leonard House

V Srikant

James C Fajardo

Michael Henry Wasilewski

Thorsten Rolf Boger

Steven Akin Dunwoody

Matthew John Dejneka

Douglas Llewellyn Butler

Kenneth Edward Hrdina

He Wang

William Peter Addiego

Joel P Carberry

Kenneth Henry Sandhage

Nikolaos Pantelis Kladias

Jiangwei Feng

Brian Paul Strines

Barada Kanta Nayak

Dipakbin Qasem Chowdhury

David Alan Deneka

Joseph Henry Citriniti

Wanda Janina Walczak

Fei Xia

Xinfeng Xing

Cynthia Baker Giroux

Cai Liu

Thomas Jean Glasson

Timothy Leonard Hunt

Elios Klemo

James Henry Faler

Lisa C Chacon

Mahendra Kumar Misra

Richard Stephen Vodhanel

Jennifersue A Bowker

Curtis Richard Cowles

Michael George Shultz

Jason Edward Hurley

Michael S Dobbins

Thomas O Mensah

Srinivas Vemury

William J Kiefer

Danny L Henderson

Randy Lee Bennett

Lei Jiang

Manoj Agrawal

Xiaodong Robert Fu

John Michael Jewell

Ravindra Kumar Akarapu

Robert E McLay

Jeffery Lynn Blackwell

Richard Alan Quinn

Christopher Lane Kerr

Danhong Zhong

Laura Beth Cook

Igor Rafaelyevich Mejouev

Christine L Tennent

Timothy L Hunt

Robert B Desorice

Ming Jun Li

Roychelle Sheneen Ingram-Ogunwumi

Christine E Heckle

G Scott Glaesemann

Raymond E Lindner

Xiaoran Fang

Donald J Walter

Laura J Ball

Shyam Prasad Mudiraj

Martin Wade Allen

Ralston R Cavender, Jr

John D Foster

Joseph S Flynn

Jason Daniel Steadman

Freddie G Prince

A honeycomb body () having a porous ceramic honeycomb structure with a first end (), a second end (), and a plurality of walls () having wall surfaces defining a plurality of inner channels (). A porous material is disposed on one or more of the wall surfaces of the honeycomb body (). A method for forming a honeycomb body () includes depositing a porous inorganic material on a ceramic honeycomb body () and binding the porous inorganic material to the ceramic honeycomb body () to form the porous layer.

Honeycomb body with porous material

A method for applying a surface treatment to a plugged honeycomb body comprising porous wall includes: mixing particles of an inorganic material with a liquid vehicle and a binder material to form a liquid-particulate-binder stream; mixing the liquid-particulate-binder stream with an atomizing gas, directing the liquid-particulate-binder stream into an atomizing nozzle thereby atomizing the particles into liquid-particulate-binder droplets comprised of the liquid vehicle, the binder material, and the particles; conveying the droplets toward the plugged honeycomb body by a gaseous carrier stream, wherein the gaseous carrier stream comprises a carrier gas and the atomizing gas; evaporating substantially all of the liquid vehicle from the droplets to form agglomerates comprised of the particles and the binder material; depositing the agglomerates onto the porous walls of the plugged honeycomb body; wherein the deposited agglomerates are disposed on, or in, or both on and in, the porous walls.

Methods of making honeycomb bodies having inorganic filtration deposits

Filtration articles herein exhibit excellent filtration efficiency and pressure drop before and after water durability testing. The articles comprise: a honeycomb filter body; inorganic deposits disposed within the honeycomb filter body at a loading of less than or equal to 20 grams of the inorganic deposits per liter of the honeycomb filter body. The inorganic deposits are comprised of refractory inorganic nanoparticles bound by a high temperature binder comprising one or more inorganic components. At least a portion of the inorganic deposits form a porous inorganic network over portions of inlet walls of the honeycomb filter body.

A method of producing soot, including: combusting a first fuel stream and a first oxidizer at a burner face; combusting a second fuel stream and a second oxidizer at the burner face, wherein the second fuel stream and the second oxidizer are premixed in advance of the burner face and a second equivalence ratio of the second fuel stream and the second oxidizer is less than about 1; and combusting a silicon-containing fuel into a plurality of soot particles, wherein the second fuel stream and the second oxidizer are combusted between the first fuel stream and the silicon-containing fuel. Applying this method of producing soot to deposit a preform suitable for the manufacture of optical fibers.

Method of producing soot

In some embodiments, a method for processing an optical fiber includes: drawing an optical fiber through a draw furnace, conveying the optical fiber through a flame reheating device downstream from the draw furnace, wherein the flame reheating device comprises one or more burners each comprising: a body having a top surface and an opposing bottom surface, an opening within the body extending from the top surface through the body to the bottom surface, wherein the optical fiber passes through the opening, and one or more gas outlets within the body; and igniting a flammable gas provided by the one or more gas outlets to form a flame encircling the optical fiber passing through the opening, wherein the flame heats the optical fiber by at least 100 degrees Celsius at a heating rate exceeding 10,000 degrees Celsius/second.

Methods and systems for processing optical fiber

Methods for producing a nanotextured surface on a substrate include forming nanoparticles from a precursor within a stream of a carrier gas. Methods include heating a surface of a substrate facing the carrier gas. Methods comprise delivering the nanoparticles to the surface of the substrate facing the carrier gas to produce the nanotextured surface.

Methods for producing nanotextured surfaces

Methods for modifying multi-mode optical fiber manufacturing processes are disclosed. In one embodiment, a method for modifying a process for manufacturing multi-mode optical fiber includes measuring at least one characteristic of a multi-mode optical fiber. The at least one characteristic is a modal bandwidth or a differential mode delay at one or more wavelengths. The method further includes determining a measured peak wavelength of the multi-mode optical fiber based on the measured characteristic, determining a difference between the target peak wavelength and the measured peak wavelength, and modifying the process for manufacturing multi-mode optical fiber based on the difference between the target peak wavelength and the measured peak wavelength.

Methods for modifying multi-mode optical fiber manufacturing processes

A method of producing bi-modal particles includes the steps of igniting a first precursor gas using a primary burner thereby producing a first plurality of particles of a first size, fluidly transporting the first plurality of particles down a particle tube, igniting a second precursor gas using a secondary burner thereby producing a second plurality of particles of a second size, flowing the second plurality of particles into the first plurality of particles, and capturing the first and second plurality of particles.

Burner design for particle generation

A method of forming an optical fiber preform includes the steps: igniting a burner having a fume tube assembly to produce a first spray size of silicon dioxide particles; depositing the silicon dioxide particles on a core cane to produce a soot blank; and adjusting an effective diameter of an aperture of the fume tube assembly to produce a second spray size of the silicon dioxide particles. The second spray size is larger than the first spray size.

Adjustable fume tube burner

A particulate filter having a porous ceramic honeycomb structure with a first end, a second end, and a plurality of walls having wall surfaces defining a plurality of inner channels. Filtration material deposits are disposed on one or more of the wall surfaces of the honeycomb body. The highly porous deposits provide durable high clean filtration efficiency with small impact on pressure drop through the filter.

Honeycomb body and particulate filter comprising a honeycomb

A honeycomb body having a porous ceramic honeycomb structure with a first end, a second end, and a plurality of walls having wall surfaces defining a plurality of inner channels. A highly porous layer is disposed on one or more of the wall surfaces of the honeycomb body. The highly porous layer has a porosity greater than 90%, and has an average thickness of greater than or equal to 0.5 &#x3bc;m and less than or equal to 10 &#x3bc;m. A method of making a honeycomb body includes depositing a layer precursor on a ceramic honeycomb body and binding the layer precursor to the ceramic honeycomb body to form the highly porous layer.

Honeycomb body and particulate filter comprising a honeycomb body

An optical fiber for efficient coupling of optical signals to photonic devices. The optical fiber includes a Cl doped tapered core region with a changing outer diameter and changing maximum core refractive index to provide improved coupling at wavelength of interest to photonic devices. The photonic devices may be, for example, silicon photonic devices with an operating wavelength at or near 1310 nm, or at or near 1550 nm.

Optical fiber for silicon photonics

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