Metal-based 1X2 Plastic Optical Fiber (POF) splitter for video over POF system application

A 1X2 POF splitter based on a Y-branch metal hollow POF coupler design has been developed. The POF splitter has an insertion loss of 5.8 ± 0.2 dB, excess loss of 2.7 dB and coupling ratio of 1∶1. The POF splitter has been tested in a video-over POF system application.