Plastic Optical Fiber Installation And Components Are Easy And Low Cost
Plastic optical fiber is light, soft, and more resistant to damage (vibration and bending). Plastic optical fiber has excellent tensile strength, durability and small footprint. These advantages make the successful application of plastic optical fiber in automobiles particularly important. A typical luxury car has at least several kilometers of copper wires and cables inside, which greatly increases the weight and cost. This is true for airplanes, trains and all other means of transportation.
Due to the large diameter and numerical aperture of the plastic optical fiber, the light transmission capacity is large. Plastic optical fiber has much higher bandwidth capability than copper transmission media (twisted pair and coaxial cable). The higher the transmission frequency, the lower the cost of using plastic optical fiber.
The cutting, wiring, bonding, polishing and other processing of plastic optical fibers are easy. Due to the larger diameter, plastic optical fiber installation and connection with devices, light sources, detectors, etc. become easy and low-cost, and non-professionals can also be competent for these operations. It takes no more than 1 minute to prepare the connection of the plastic optical fiber, and no special tools are required. Even the simplest scissors can be used to cut plastic optical fibers. The plastic optical fiber transceiver module uses red light with a wavelength of 650nm, which is very safe, and users can see and easily judge whether the optical fiber connection is successful. In addition, the connection of the plastic optical fiber is not sensitive to dust and debris trapped on the end face.
Plastic optical fiber does not produce radiation, and is completely immune to electromagnetic interference, radio frequency interference and noise. This is particularly important for the splitting of video and audio. Obviously, these interferences and noises affect the quality of images and services. Plastic optical fibers and copper cables can be laid side by side in the same duct or in the same harness. Plastic optical fiber produces no noise and will not have a negative impact on the current pipe network.
The cost of the POF system is low. It is said that the cost of each connection used for home consumer electronics, home networking and cars including audio, DVD, VCR, etc. is less than 20 dollars. So these devices can be bought in general stores.
