Plastic Optical Fiber Industry Needs to Strengthen Independent Innovation Capabilities

In recent years, optical fiber cables have occupied a major position in the construction of modern communication networks. At present, China's plastic optical fiber communications industry already has the conditions for accelerating development. To promote the long-term development of the industry, it is necessary to strengthen overall planning, rational distribution, and constantly improve the ability of independent innovation.

Heavy-duty companies and leading companies in the optical fiber communications industry should increase investment in technology research and development and technological transformation, and strive to improve product technology and production technology. These issues require the upstream and downstream enterprises in the industrial chain to work closely together and jointly tackle the issue, and put product manufacturing, operation services, and user use into the context of a large industrial chain for overall consideration and overall planning.

According to the current situation of China's current plastic optical fiber industry, the development of the national optical fiber industry can be promoted from the following three aspects.

First, establish a technical standards alliance. The alliance of technical standards plays an important role in achieving standardized strategies among enterprises, reducing the risks and costs of standardization, and harmonizing the contradiction between intellectual property rights and technical standards.

Second, joint efforts should be made to jointly tackle international trade barriers. At present, China's plastic optical fiber products are still in the initial stage of "going out." With the continuous increase in the export volume of plastic optical fiber products in China, more and more international trade barriers will be encountered in the future. Domestic enterprises must have corresponding countermeasures and adequate ideological preparations. The domestic optical fiber companies must unite and cooperate and actively protect their legitimate rights and interests under the organization of industry associations.

Third, strengthen cooperation between companies and Soviet fiber optic national engineering laboratories. Give full play to the role of the Soviet R&D platform for fiber optic national engineering laboratories. Through the national engineering laboratories, companies in the plastic optical fiber communications industry chain are united, responsible for division of labor, respectively breaking through the relevant technological bottlenecks, jointly solving technical difficulties, and jointly developing and promoting the industrial chain. Mutual benefit and common development with supply chain companies.

There are still some gaps in the R&D, production, core technologies and key links of optical fibers compared with foreign countries; in terms of key technologies and products such as optical devices, optical modules, and optical systems, it is necessary to strengthen R&D and achieve technological and industrial breakthroughs.