Bivar, a leading specialty provider of LED indication products and solutions, announced the first offering in the new Bivar plastic optical fiber (POF) Light Pipe System series, a 2mm core flexible light pipe solution. The new flexible light pipe system offers a variety of lens cap indicators and LED adaptors that provide exceptional viewing angles, light diffusion and intensity. The new light pipe system from Bivar is an ideal LED indication upgrade solution for outdoor and rugged applications, which require greater brightness and light transfer capacity, sturdy design and more flexibility.

Bivar's new product is an upgrade to its 1mm core flexible light pipe series and provides significantly more light output, yet offers design engineers with greater product design freedom. "Design engineers love the concept of this product," said Mike Finn, Bivar's vice president of sales and marketing. "We are enabling them to place their printed circuit board assembly a significant distance away from the required light output while empowering them to be creative in their designs. With our new series, design engineers are not confined by the limitations of a rigid light pipe solution; they can easily redesign a product and adjust the light source accordingly by simply changing the length to meet the new specifications of their product."

The new flexible light pipe system is the first in a series of proprietary light pipe systems from Bivar. The new product includes an optimized LED/adapter, flexible light pipe and lens with up to four times the light path of Bivar's 1mm POF series. The product has no light leakage through optical fiber, as compared to clear flexible light pipes, and is covered with a tough, flexible RoHS compliant PVC alloy outer jacket that maximizes light transmission (by "trapping" it in the core) and protects the core and cladding during installation and operation. The optical grade core optimizes light transmission while the lens cap diffuses the light for brilliant indication output and minimal loss in intensity.