At present, China's plastic optical fiber mass production technology has made a breakthrough, plastic optical fiber industry in the domestic market prospects.

Experts pointed out that on April 27th this year, the organic optical waveguide materials and device research center led by researchers Zhen Zhen and Liu Xinhou of the Institute of Physics and Chemistry, Chinese Academy of Sciences, after years of efforts, have overcome the direct production of PMMA from bulk polymerization. The technical difficulties of the methyl acrylate fiber have brought forward the new technology of single molecular diffusion and transfer material purification and the new technique of the push-push thin layer bulk polymerization to prepare the high-purity fiber grade PMMA raw material and the corresponding cladding material, forming the independent knowledge The proprietary high-purity fiber grade PMMA optical molding compound (core material) and the core technology for the preparation of the skin material successfully solve the key technical problems in the industrialization approach and the mass production equipment and processes. This is a breakthrough in the production of plastic optical fiber mass production technology in China.

It is understood that at present, from a foreign point of view, European and North American telecommunications companies and European plastic optical fiber alliances have been testing plastic optical fibers. They think that such media have the advantages of easy installation, low price, flexibility, and no damage to the naked eye. Use it in large numbers for home and business users. In China, the challenges and opportunities of the high-tech industry of plastic optical fiber coexist. For its positioning, loss, cost, and industrial chain support, there are still doubts in the industry and the market is not sufficiently aware of it. However, many of the advantages of plastic optical fiber is that the current largest fiber-optic telecommunications household - quartz fiber can not be compared. Quartz fiber has a small core diameter, complex connection, and high cost, so it encounters great difficulties when entering a fiber. With the rapid development of industries such as short-distance, large-capacity data communication systems and lighting, plastic optical fiber has advantages such as large core diameter, easy docking, good flexibility, strong plasticity, light weight, and low cost, etc. Optical fiber sensing has the advantage that quartz fiber does not have, so it occupies a clear advantage.