介绍了塑料光纤的开发历史和现状及塑料光纤通信的优点 ,尤其是塑料光纤在高速、短距离通信网络中具有明显的优势。同时也提到了塑料光纤通信存在的损耗大、带宽窄、耐温性差几个缺点。现在人们正在针对这方面进行研究 ,争取使塑料光纤在未来的光纤通信中得到更广泛的应用 The development history and current situation of plastic optical fiber and the advantages of plastic optical fiber communication are introduced. In particular, plastic optical fiber has obvious advantages in high speed and short distance communication network. At the same time also mentioned the existence of plastic optical fiber communication loss, narrow bandwidth, temperature resistance, a few shortcomings. Now people are conducting research in this area, to make plastic optical fiber in the future of optical fiber communication is more widely used