Hybrid fiber optic lighting distribution system

摘要

A robust hybrid fiber optic lighting distribution system (100) incorporating a light source (106) and two fiber optic media (110, 122) to thereby provide high temperature tolerance adjacent the light source and inexpensive and easily maintained light distribution to geographically independent illumination features downstream from the light source. The hybrid fiber optic distribution system (100) includes a light source (106), a plurality of multi-stranded glass optical fiber (GOF) leads (110) forming part of an optical jumper (138) optically interfaced with the light source (106), and a plurality of solid core plastic optical fiber (POF) leads (122) forming part of an optical distributor (140) optically interfaced with the optical jumper (138) which provide light distribution to various illumination features throughout the motor vehicle.