Cheap Plastic Fibre Optics

[Klaus Kragelund]

Hi

Do any of you know of the cheapest optic fibres that has practical/
easy connectors. By easy I mean that we don't need to make an insanely
precise cut of the fibre or perhaps just use a cable assembly with pre-
assembed cables and connectors

If possible I would prefer the types used in audio (consumer goods)
since it will probably have many second source manufactors and be
cheap

Thanks

Klaus

PS I found this from Avego, but perhaps there's something cheaper/
better:

http://download.siliconexpert.com/p...ual/tyc/cable assemblies/jpn_cd_178671_g1.pdf

 

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Google ESKA fiber, I've very sure there is low cost 2nd source of it.

www.fiberopticproducts.com is a company I've had good luck with for
prototyping.

Steve

 

[Klaus Kragelund]

It's usually best to stick with some popular standard and one of them
from the consumer market would be TOSLink, introduced by Toshiba. Only
used by real HiFi aficionados but prettycheap. You can buy the cables
ready made in all sorts of lengths. I don't know this store but the
prices are roughly what I've seen elsewhere:

http://www.monoprice.com/products/subdepartment.asp?c_id=102&cp_id=10229

You can also get jacks, splices, digital transmitters, receivers and
other stuff for TOSLink. For example these, for well under a buck:

http://media.digikey.com/pdf/Data Sheets/Toshiba PDFs/TOTX147(F,T...

Great, thanks. Looks like what I was searching for. The only issue now
is the lifetime of such a device.

Regards

Klaus