Abstract

Femtosecond laser pulse sources have become increasingly popular in the last decade as a result of their practical features, such as insensitivity to environmental variations, versatile designs, high-power outputs. However, much of the progress is with non-integrated specialty fibers, which involve some compromise on these practical features. Monolithic fiber chirped pulse amplification (CPA) systems are very attractive for industrial and scientific applications due to the features such as compactness, reliability and robustness [1].

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