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In hardly any other area has the number of applications so rapidly developed as in the area of optical short-range communication. Applications of polymer fibers, glass fiber bundles in the field of lighting technology as well as in automation have been established for many years. Since the end of the 1990s POFs have also been used in various mobile networks. At the time when our first edition was published there had hardly been any information published on MOST applications. This second edition now contains a detailed description. The use of POF and other thick optical fibers in the fields of sensor technology and home networks are just about to be used on a large scale.
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(2008). Application of Polymer Optical and Glass Fibers. In: POF Handbook. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-540-76629-2_8
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