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Super Eska™

SUPER Eska™ - a defacto standard for Audio Interface cable

Mitsubishi Rayon's 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
Comments
NA
0.5
 
Refractive Index (core)
1.49
 
Transmission Loss
0.16 dB/m
excluding SK-10 and utilized cable
Bandwidth
40 MHz/50m
applies to SK-30, 40 only
Operation Temperature
-40 ~ 70°C
 

Super Eska™ Optical Fiber

Part
No.
Fiber
Diameter (mm)
Core
Diameter (mm)
Bandwidth
/ 50 m
Transmission
Loss (k/m)
Remarks
2.0
1.96
N/R
160 dB
Special order only
1.5
1.47
1.0
0.98
40 MHz
0.75
0.73
0.5
0.48
Not usable for data transmission
0.25
0.24