What is plastic optical fiber made of? First of all, the core material of plastic optical fiber is made up of polycarbonate, polymethyl methacrylate, and highly transparent polymers such as polystyrene, and secondly, its outer skin is made up of some optical fibers such as fluoroplastics and PMMA.

  So is plastic optical fiber just a decorative item on the table? Of course not. Plastic optical fiber has a communication function and is very fast. So, here's the question. Why haven't we seen much of plastic fiber in recent years?
  
  Around 2000 is arguably the golden period of plastic optical fiber, when plastic optical fiber can be seen everywhere, however, because plastic optical fiber companies want to develop their own, each for their own war, no cooperation, which led to the industry and the best time to pass by. And now the overall technology of plastic optical fiber industry has matured, but in the lack of communication and sharing environment, the industry chain structure is not perfect, the scale of promotion is still unrealistic.
  
  From two aspects, first of all, as far as the industry is concerned, plastic optical fiber companies are on their own and do not communicate with each other, and capital investment is also implemented in accordance with their understanding of the market and their own development strategies. The absence of industry standards and industry leaders is perhaps the main reason why the plastic optical fiber industry is caught in a vortex of over-investment and bad circulation.
  
  Second, as far as technology is concerned, most of the companies in the industry have mature technical capabilities, while the national standards for plastic optical fiber for the communications industry have not yet been developed, and there are no unified standards for product design, technology development.
  
  So in summary, even if plastic optical fiber from the beginning of research and development to now, has gone through a difficult course of technology gradually meet the standards, it is difficult to become an atmosphere, after all, has missed the best time to open up the market, the scale of promotion will be difficult to achieve.
  
 So what remedy is there if you want to form an industrialized plastic optical fiber rapid development? In this regard, experts give advice is: government departments, industry research institutes and other organizations to take the lead in the preparation of the system standards, to the market set a "rule", plastic optical fiber companies work together "group warming".
  
  Technology development is changing rapidly, the industry or enterprises to catch the timing is very important.
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