Diamond turningTool

Diamond turningoptics

The Corning Specialty Materials facility includes proprietary diamond turned optics systems for use in military, aerospace, and commercial applications. This process produces surfaces with drastically reduced or eliminated diffraction effects typically associated with diamond turning. It eliminates the need for post polishing which, in turn, reduces manufacturing time and costs, and also avoids the potential risk of altering the surface figure.

Diamond-turned reflective, refractive, and diffractive optical systems are manufactured for use in variety of military, aerospace, and commercial applications including tactical aircraft targeting, night vision, missile guidance, hyperspectral imagers, helmet mounted displays, medical, analytical instrumentation, and semiconductor optics.