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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2009 Dec 1.
Published in final edited form as: Microsc Res Tech. 2008 Dec;71(12):887–896. doi: 10.1002/jemt.20634

Fig. 2.

Fig. 2

The maximum coupling efficiencies for different types of fibers are plotted. The x-axis represents the fiber output optical power on a logarithmic scale. Fiber coupling efficiency is observed to be power-independent. All the small-core fibers have 40-50%, whereas most of the large-core fibers have 80-90%. Note that DCPCF16um has similar coupling efficiency to small-core ones due to its small fiber core NA, even though it has relatively large core.