Market Competitiveness Remain Insufficient Enhanced As the Utilization of Plastic Optical Fiber

With the rapid development of optica communication industry, fiber optical signal as a transmission medium, plays the role of the information superhighway. In recent years, with the rapid development of short-distance, large-capacity data communication and lighting industries, the growing use of plastic optical fiber. Although excellent plastic fiber tensile strength, high durability, small footprint, but overall it seems. Competitiveness of plastic fiber is also insufficient.

Industry analysts pointed out: increased utilization of plastic optical fiber does not mean it has absolute advantage. Although plastic optical fiber has a quartz fiber do not have the advantages of short distance communication and fiber sensing aspects, but in terms of temperature stability, high temperature plastic optical fiber capacity cannot, without a competitive performance for its price and do not have a strong competitive advantage.

From the loss, the loss of a large plasticoptic fiber, quartz fiber loss is only 0.18db/km, and plastic optical fiber loss is 0.5db/km, plastic optical fiber loss per kilometer too large. Fiber material has not yet entered the home, or in a pilot inside, relatively few domestic manufacturers of plastic optical fiber, there are still large gaps in the transmission bandwidth and abroad. In terms of price, foreign quartz fiber prices have dropped to 40 yuan, while the country is still in a plastic optical fiber 600 to 700 yuan, but not comparable.

But there is no denying the fact that in the future intelligent family, office automation, industrial networking, automotive airborne data communications network and military communication network data transmission. China should vigorously develop the plastic fiber industry alliance should establish technical standards to reduce the risk and cost of standardization, coordination of technical standard language intellectual contradictions should also strengthen the cooperation of enterprises with the Soviet Union Optical fiber national engineering laboratory. The national engineering laboratory plastic optical fiber communication industry chain enterprises should unite to solve technical challenges. In addition, still should jointly cope with the international trade barriers. Optical fiber domestic enterprises should unity and cooperation, under the organization of industry association, actively to protect their legitimate rights and interests. The only way is to give full play to the potential of plastic fibers.

Although in recent years, the utilization of plastic fibers improved, but due to constraints in terms of consumption, price, compared with the conventional silica fiber, and do not form their own distinct competitive advantage, how to reduce the losses and increase the bandwidth and improve the heat resistance so that its key competitive advantage.