By Stephen Montgomery
Fibre optics may be best-known to the public for their broad use in
residential Internet and other telecommunications services, as they can
transmit more data across longer distances than copper- or wire-based cabling.
They are also increasingly being implemented for lighting applications,
however, including sign and display illumination.
An optical fibre is a thin and flexible tube, made of either glass or
plastic, that can carry light from one end to the other. It may be installed
inside a cable jacket or externally from a cable (i.e. ‘individually’).
Fibre optic lighting has proven practical for a wide range of
industrial, automotive, military, aerospace, medical and scientific uses, but
has also found its way into store display cases, swimming pools and spas,
landscaping, offices, casinos, holiday decorations, toys and consumer products.
Indeed, research shows the overall value of the worldwide market for fibre
optic lighting grew to US$312 million in 2016.
While the use of fibre optics in signage is still in its infancy, this
could change quickly. The process of assembling, testing and manufacturing
fibre optic lighting products already allows for mass production capabilities.
Over the next few years, the average prices of these products will be driven
lower by these production efficiencies, as well as by quality controls, higher
yields, greater competition (in terms of both markets and technologies),
improvements in sales, marketing and distribution and other factors. As such,
the technology will move on from the ‘development’ and ‘introduction’ stages in
the sign industry and into the ‘growth’ stage of its product life cycle (PLC).
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