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Wednesday, November 18, 2009

EU-funded researchers develop new plastic optical fibre technology

Plastic optical fibre (POF) is making headway in the technology world and the EU-funded POLYCOM ('Plastic optical fibres with embedded active polymers for data communications') project has played a central role in its success.Backed with EUR 1.55 million under the 'Information Society Technologies' (IST) Thematic area of the EU's Sixth Framework Programme (FP6), POLYCOM has promoted the use of POF in optical computing, ultra-high-speed LANs (local area networks) and new sensing devices.

POF for data transmission is known as the 'consumer' version of glass optical fibre, and is used in the long-distance trunk routes of global telecommunications networks. Flexible plastic fibres are unique in that their production costs are low, their installation is simple and trouble-free, and their light transmission is safer and easier to maintain than infrared versions. The downside is that their use is limited to short-distance and low-speed data transmission.

The POLYCOM consortium, comprising six partners from Germany, Italy, Portugal and the UK, succeeded in developing the first-ever all-optical high-speed switch for POF networks. This groundbreaking result will fuel the research sector's and industry's need for fast optical data transmission.

The research sector and industry are currently assessing the use of POF for the creation of new sensing devices.

For more information, please visit:

POLYCOM:
http://www.fisi.polimi.it/polycom/

ICT Results:
http://cordis.europa.eu/ictresults/

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