SAE World Congress & Exhibition

Technical Session Schedule titled:
Recent Developments in Plastic Optical Fibers for Automotive OEM and
Aftermarket Applications
(Session Code: AE12)

Date: Monday, April 14
Room W2-67 9:00 a.m.

This session will be a panel of experts organized by the Plastic Optical Fiber Trade Organization (POFTO) to review recent developments in Plastic Optical Fiber (POF) Technology as it pertains to automotive OEMs and the auto after market. There are over 50 million optical nodes in automobiles on the road today in 50 models of cars. The number of nodes is increasing at a rate of 10 million per year. Steady gains have been made in POF technology allowing speeds of up to 1 Gbps over Si-POF leaving much room for future growth. The next generation of POF systems will operate at 150Mbps over the existing POF wiring. New high temperature Plastic Optical Fibers will operate at 105 degrees centigrade and research is underway to increase this to 125 degrees centigrade. These and many more aspects of POF technology and applications in the automotive industry will be discussed in this session.

Title of my presentation:
POF Connectors and Associated Equipment

Paul M. Mulligan,
FiberFin Inc.

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Paul M. Mulligan

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