Plastic Optical Fiber in Power Inverter Rectifier

The main applications of industrial optical fibers in wind power systems are power electronic door drives of rectifiers and inverters, control and communication circuit boards, wind turbine control units, condition monitoring systems, and wind farm interconnection.

Rectifiers and inverters are the main components of the wind turbine system. The switching action of these devices is controlled by an embedded digital signal processor through HCS or plastic optical fiber (POF), and it is used to provide highly efficient and reliable control with high electrical insulation capability.