Application of POF
- 6-series BMW with MOST and Byteflight (Photo POF‘2004 in Nuremberg)
Polymer optical fibers (especially the standard PMMA-SI-POF) have been in commercial use since the 90’s in different areas. The following overview lists some of the most common areas.
Automotive:
lD2B (5 Mbit/s, since 1998) lMOST (25 Mbit/s, since 2001) lByteflight (from BMW) lMOST2 (50 Mbit/s) lIEEE1394 (data rates to 400 Mbit/s under development, only prototypes) lMOST150 (150 Mbit/s) since 2012
Data Communication
Fast Ethernet (100 Mbit/s - 50 m) in industry and home networks lATM (155 Mbit/s over 50 m), available since 1995, almost not used in Europe lIEEE1394b (100 Mbit/s over 70 m; 400 Mbit/s over 100 m under development) lGigabit Ethernet (1000 Mbit/s - 50 m) in industry and home networks, commercial chip sets available since summer 2013
Automation
SERCOS (2 Mbit/s, 60 m)
Profibus (1.5 Mbit/s, 60 m)
INTERBUS (2 Mbit/s, 70 m)lFast Ethernet (100 Mbit/s, 50 m)
Sensing
Pedestrian protection (VDO)
Elongation sensor (e.g. in wind power stations)
Illumination
Starry sky‘s Luminous textiles Contour illumination with side emitting fibers Guiding of day light into rooms (Sollektor)
