Abstract
Chirped-pulse amplification of a modelocked Yb fiber laser in a large mode-area polarization-maintaining Yb-fiber using a nonlinearly-chirped fiber Bragg-grating stretcher is demonstrated. Pulses with 8nm bandwidth are amplified to 43µJ and 1000x recompressed to 900fs.
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