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Super Eska™

SUPER Eska™ - a defactor standard for Audio Interface cable

Mitsubishi Rayon's original original POF designed for data transmission. Quite a few of the Digital Audio Interface cables which are manufactured (a few million pieces a month in the world), are made of "Super Eska™" fiber.

Characterisitics
  • Low cost, general-purpose.
  • For data transmission, and sensing.
  • Popular as Digital Audio Interface cable.
  • Operation temperature: -40 to 70°C

Specifications

Structure
Step Index
 
NA
0.5
 
Refractive Index (core)
1.49
 
Transmission Loss
0.16 dB/m
excluding SK-10 and utilized cable
Bandwidth
40 MHz/50m
apply SK-30, 40 only
Operation Temperature
-55 ~ 70°C
 

Super Eska™ Bulk (bare) Fibers

Part
No.
Fiber
Diameter
Core
Diameter
Bandwidth
/ 50 m
Transmission
Loss (k/m)
Remarks
SK-80
2.0 mm
1.96 mm
160 dB
Not available in Bulk
SK-60
1.5 mm
1.47 mm
SK-40
1.0 mm
0.98
40 MHz
SK-30
0.75 mm
0.73 mm
SK-20
0.5 mm
0.48 mm
Not usable for data transmission
SK-10
0.25 mm
0.24 mm