Polymer optical fibers (POFs) have been utilized in several applications since the late 1950s. Adding photoluminescence (PL) to the fiber considerably widens the optical functionality of POFs and opens new application fields. In recent years, the availability of laboratory-scale production methods with industrialization potential has triggered a surge of new studies and developments in the promising area of PL-POFs. These applications, profiting from the addition of PL to fibers, are identified in this review as: light harvesting, sensing, color illumination, anti-counterfeiting, and random lasing. Progress in these fields is foreseen to generate a need for larger quantities of fibers, therefore large-scale manufacturing and processing methods are becoming more relevant. This review thus provides an overview of the most important developments in this emerging area, together with a description of the key parameters describing PL-POF performance and efficiency.

自1950年代末以来，聚合物光纤（POF）已被用于多种应用中。在光纤中添加光致发光（PL）大大拓宽了POF的光学功能，并开辟了新的应用领域。近年来，具有工业化潜力的实验室规模生产方法的出现，在有前途的PL-POFs领域引发了新的研究和发展。通过在纤维中添加PL获利的这些应用在本次审查中被标识为：集光，传感，彩色照明，防伪和随机激光。预计在这些领域中的进展将产生对大量纤维的需求，因此大规模的制造和加工方法变得越来越重要。