FLEXIBLE PLASTIC OPTICAL FIBER CABLE

摘要

To provide a plastic optical fiber cable capable of withstanding repeated bending and keeping optical loss low when it is bent with a bend radius of 2 mm. The plastic optical fiber cable is such that it includes: a multi-core plastic optical fiber strand, including: island parts made up of 7 or more and 10000 or less cores each formed of a transparent resin and of at least one cladding layer surrounding each of the cores and formed of a transparent resin with a refractive index lower than that of the transparent resin forming the cores; and a sea part surrounding each of the island parts and formed of a resin; and a coating layer, which surrounds the multi-core plastic optical fiber strand, in which the resin forming at least one of the cladding layer and the sea layer is a resin having a Shore D hardness of 25 or more and 55 or less, and the resin forming the coating layer is a thermoplastic resin having a flexural modulus of 500 MPa or more and 2000 MPa or less.