The Polymer optical Fiber Application Center (POF-AC) is a research institute of the Technische Hochschule Nürnberg Georg Simon Ohm.
Main activities
- Fiber optics and photonics
- Datacommunication
- Illumination
- Sensors
- Power over Fiber (low power)
Services
- Support entering this user-friendly, yet unexploited technology
- Construction of demonstration or pilot systems
- Customer specific measurements of all parameters of POFsystems
Main areas of research and development
- Equipment for measuring the characteristics of thick fibres (>100 μm diameter), components and systems for all types
- Customer-specific investigations and development of components and systems
- Simulation of components and systems
Special facilities
Optical material characterization, Fiber optics laboratories,
Optical simulation tools, climatic tests and bit-error rate tests
Technology partners
Federal Institute for Material Research and Testing, Bayerisches
Laserzentrum (BLZ)
Current top technologies
High bitrate, short range datacommunications systems
Optical sensors for industrial applications
