Plastic Fibers for Innovative Lighting
POFs are used in many modern illumination designs such as sauna lighting, luminescent clothing, and starry skies in luxury cars. The price and “good” lighting are crucial here. This is achieved by a high numerical aperture and diffuse emission characteristics. Fiber illumination does not require any special polish, which allows us to offer these POFs at particularly low prices – as bare fibers or cables.
Side-Light POF for Illumination
Side-light POFs are special polymer optical fibers that emit coupled light sideways across the entire length of the fiber. This property is extraordinary because normally the coupled light is actually transmitted within the optical fibers and only decoupled at the fiber end face. In conventional fibers, keeping the decoupled side light to a minimum is a quality feature. Side-light POFs therefore require very special fibers with deliberate faults in the cladding/core interface that lead to lateral emission. They provide good illumination across distances of up to 4 m. For higher requirements on length or illumination, we recommend the use of fiber bundles.
