{"id":21922,"date":"2020-02-20T15:12:58","date_gmt":"2020-02-20T15:12:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/clemson.world\/research\/?p=21922"},"modified":"2020-02-20T15:12:58","modified_gmt":"2020-02-20T15:12:58","slug":"optical-innovation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/clemson.world\/research\/optical-innovation\/","title":{"rendered":"Optical Innovation"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-21924 size-featured_large\" src=\"http:\/\/clemson.world\/research\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2020\/02\/John-Ballato_015-copy-1500x630.jpg\" alt=\"COMSET lathe\" width=\"1500\" height=\"630\" \/><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\" style=\"text-align: center;\"><em>New lathe enhances capabilities in optical fiber production<\/em><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">Already the only academic facility in the U.S.\u00a0<\/span>with industrial-scale <span class=\"s2\">capabilities to fabricate optical fiber, the Clemson University Center for <\/span>Optical Materials Science and Engineering Technologies (COMSET) is receiving its second SG Controls MCVD lathe through an in-kind gift from Molex, further positioning COMSET as one of the premier fiber-optics <span class=\"s2\">facilities in the world. <\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p2\">\u201cIt was Molex\u2019s desire to place this MCVD lathe in a location which would benefit education and foster innovation in the optical sciences field,\u201d stated Jim Clarkin, general manager at Molex\u2019s Polymicro fiber optic business unit. \u201cAfter considering several options, COMSET was the obvious choice. They have the most comprehensive academic program in the optical fiber field and are the most qualified to utilize the equipment in a manner which will yield the greatest benefit to the technology and society overall.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"p3\">Headquartered in Clemson\u2019s Advanced Materials Research Lab, COMSET\u2019s capabilities include manufacturing advanced optical fiber through the SG Control <span class=\"s3\">MCVD lathe, a state-of-the-art fiber draw tower, and considerable facilities and expertise to develop high-energy lasers and laser technology. These abilities have pro<\/span>vided opportunities to work closely with the defense and private and public sectors.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>New lathe enhances capabilities in optical fiber production Already the only academic facility in the U.S.\u00a0with industrial-scale capabilities to fabricate optical fiber, the Clemson University Center for Optical Materials Science and Engineering Technologies (COMSET) is receiving its second SG Controls MCVD lathe through an in-kind gift from Molex, further positioning COMSET as one of the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":13,"featured_media":21924,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[3],"tags":[193,194,195,69,196],"coauthors":[218],"class_list":["post-21922","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-research-news","tag-2020-research-news","tag-comset","tag-lathe","tag-optical-fiber","tag-optical-materials"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/clemson.world\/research\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2020\/02\/John-Ballato_015-copy.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p9IEky-5HA","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/clemson.world\/research\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21922","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/clemson.world\/research\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/clemson.world\/research\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/clemson.world\/research\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/13"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/clemson.world\/research\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=21922"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/clemson.world\/research\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21922\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/clemson.world\/research\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/21924"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/clemson.world\/research\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21922"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/clemson.world\/research\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=21922"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/clemson.world\/research\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=21922"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/clemson.world\/research\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=21922"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}