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Toyota CRDL Demonstrates Inexpensive Bidirectional Fiber Communications

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Brech Hitz

Plastic optical fibers are beginning to replace electrical wiring harnesses in many automotive applications because of their low cost, light weight and immunity to electromagnetic interference. Recently, engineers at Toyota Central R&D Laboratories (CRDL) Inc. in Nagakute and at Toyoda Gosei Ltd. in Inazawa, both in Japan, demonstrated an inexpensive, bidirectional system capable of transmitting 250 Mb/s over 20 m of plastic fiber. Figure 1. The small plastic multiplexing modules are connected with up to 20 m of plastic optical fiber. Images ©OSA. The system comprises two small (8 × 9...Read full article

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    Published: October 2005
    CommunicationsD Laboratorieselectromagnetic interferenceindustrialplastic optical fibersResearch & TechnologySensors & DetectorsTech PulseToyota Central R&

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