Plastic Optical Fiber (POF) Market and Technology Opportunities Presentations and Applications Center

The Plastic Optical Fiber Trade Organization (POFTO), as part of its “POF Day Program,” is organizing a POF Symposium that is focused on “POF for Home Networks” but also covers recent developments in technology, applications, and new markets such as AOC for HDMI, connectorless technology, and chip solutions for POF data communications. A special attraction is a review of the EEC POF-PLUS funded program, which is leading the way in the development of POF home networks. Speakers from around the world will review developments in their countries of Gigabit POF home networks.

POFTO is also organizing a POF Application Center where companies demonstrate their products during the show and attendees can bring their problems and receive design advice on POF solutions from experts.

POF Symposium Schedule

Thursday, March 25

10:00-10:15 "Review of POF-2009 — Focus on Home Networks"

Paul Polishuk, POFTO board member

10:15-10:35 "10Gbps Transmission over Step Index POF"

Olaf Ziemann, Juri Vinogradov, Michael Luber, Sven Loquai, POF Application Center

10:35-10:50 "Integrated Optical Home Networks for IP-TV and Multimedia Applications"

Josef Faller, HomeFibre Digital Network GmbH

10:50-11:05 "Developments in POF Sources"

John Lambkin, Firecomms Ltd.

11:05-11:20 "Simplified Multi-Gigabit Networking with Perfluorinated POF"

Whitney White, Chromis Fiber

11:20-11:40 "Microstructured POF"

Maryanne Large, Kiriama

11:40-11:55 "Bend-insensitive Polymer Optical Fibers"

Olaf Ziemann, Juri Vinogradov, Michael Luber, POF Application Center; Peter Kroeplin, Sojitz, Germany

11:55-12:10 "POF Simulation Tool"

Sven Loquai, Roman Kruglov, Olaf Ziemann, POF Application Center; Christian Alexander Bunge, HFTL, Germany

12:10-12:30 "Report of European POF-Plus Project"

Roberto Gaudino, ISMB, Italy

12:30-12:50 "Gigabit Links Using LED Sources"

Sebastian Randel, Jeffrey Lee, Siemens, Germany; Florian Breyer, TU Munich, Germany

12:50-1:05 "Multi-Gigabit Transmission over Graded Index PMMA POF using DMT Techniques"

Eduward Tangdiongga, Hejie Yang, Chigo Okonkuo, Yan Shi, Henrie Ven den Boom, Ton Koonen, TU Eindhoven, Netherlands

1:05-1:20 "Integrated Receiver Technology for High-speed POF Systems"

Holger Holtke, Josef Wittl, Silicon Line, Germany; Nikolaus Schunk, Avago, Germany; Norbert Weber, Fraunhofer, Germany; Sven Loquai, POFAC, Germany

1:20-1:35 "POF Sensor Applications"

Joseba Zubia, Univ. Bilbao, Spain

1:35-3:00 Post-deadline papers and new product announcements

This video is (to our knowledge)  the world´s first look into a POF connector showing intruded water freezing during a climatic test.
During the cycles from -40°C to +85°C with RH 95%  water is intruding into the connector. You can see the water intrusion and freezing resulting in high attenuation.
The video is showing a timelapse of one 8 hour cycle.