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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2010 Sep 28.
Published in final edited form as: Opt Express. 2009 Sep 28;17(20):17983–17988. doi: 10.1364/OE.17.017983

Table 1.

Properties of commercial photonic crystal fibers (Crystal Fibre A/S, Denmark).

Fiber type ZDW (nm) Geometric core diameter (μm) ZDW equivalent silica strand diameter (μm) Launching efficiency (%) CR (predicted) (nm) CR (measured) (nm)
NL-1.5-670 670 1.5 1.34 60 359 348
NL-1.7-670 670 1.7 1.34 62 359 369
NL-1.8-710 710 1.8 1.55 66 389 394
NL-2.0-735 735 2.0 1.71 70 414 420
NL-2.0-745 745 2.0 1.78 72 425 433
NL-2.3-790 790 2.3 2.14 75 486 490
NL-2.4-800 800 2.4 2.24 75 502 509
NL-2.5-810 810 2.5 2.34 76 520 523
NL-2.6-825 825 2.6 2.51 76 549 548
NL-2.8-840 840 2.8 2.70 78 583 585
NL-3.0-850 850 3.0 2.83 80 610 632
NL-3.0-870 870 3.0 3.12 82 659 639
NL-3.0-890 890 3.0 3.48 85 726 695