All-Fiber Chirped-Pulse Amplifier Emitting 670 Fs Pulses With 92 mW Peak Power

We demonstrated an all-fiber chirped-pulse amplifier with a stretcher stage based on a triple-cladding fiber and a final amplification stage based on a newly-developed highly Yb-doped large-mode area fiber with a Ge-doped pedestal. The stretcher fiber was designed to match a diffraction grating compressor in the third-order dispersion and allowed the stretching of 6 ps 1026 nm chirped pulses up to similar to 500 ps. These pulses were amplified in the developed Yb-doped fiber and then compressed using a transmission grating compressor down to 670 fs duration with 3.5 W average power and 61.8 mu J pulse energy, corresponding to a record-high peak power of 92 MW.