Plastic Optical Fiber Cable Assembly

Plastic Optical Fiber Cable assemblies (POF) are used for transportation, aerospace and communication industries.

Polymer (or plastic) optical fibres which provide extremely easy and cost-effective connections compared to other standard glass fibres, are sufficiently flexible to withstand a large strain of several tens of percent .Therefore, despite their higher loss compared to that of silica glass fibres, POFs have been utilized in medium-range communication applications such as home networks and automobiles as well as in high-strain monitoring applications. In polymer optical fibres, both fibre core and cladding are made of polymers. key advantages of polymer optical fibers are high flexibility ( high alternate bending resistance with smaller bending radios) as well as low cost solution in connecting and transmission technology in comparison with glass optical fibres.