Plastic optical fiber (POF) has been used for 30 years in specialized applications that require low data rates and cabling runs less than 100 meters long. But now, because of new developments, POF is ...

Alan Martin, Engineer Extraordinaire, once told me, “You never regret adding isolation between your circuits.” While he was speaking in the context of power supplies, the same goes for isolating ...

It may look like little more than fishing line, but plastic optical fiber or POF promises to revolutionize high-speed last-mile communications networks. It may look like little more than fishing line, ...

According to a new report published by Allied Market Research, the global plastic optic fiber market size was valued at $5.0 billion in 2022 and is projected to reach $11.4 billion by 2032, growing at ...

This figure illustrates the result of distributed temperature sensing using a perfluorinated graded-index plastic optical fiber (POF). The top diagram shows the structure of the sensing POF, including ...

According to a new report published by Allied Market Research, the global plastic optic fiber market size was valued at $5.0 billion in 2022 and is projected to reach $11.4 billion by 2032, growing at ...

ADVANCING THE PRACTICAL USE OF PLASTIC OPTICAL FIBER (POF) for data applications has been hampered by a lack of source information. This has been remedied by publication of the POF Sourcebook which ...

A thin strand of glass designed for light transmission. A single hair-thin optical fiber is capable of transmitting trillions of bits per second. In addition to their huge transmission capacity, ...

Although optical fibers are highly effective at data transmission, they're also relatively brittle. An experimental new type of optical fiber addresses that limitation, by incorporating a core made of ...

Optical component start-up Lumera completed a $24 million round of funding Wednesday led by Cisco Systems, the latest such company to attract an investment from the networking giant. Other investors ...

Advanced wind turbines sport a large number of sensors whose signals are prone to contamination from electrical noise. Fiber optics to the rescue. Mickaël Marie Industrial Fiber Products Div. Product ...