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This chapter reviews the fundamentals and achievements of ultrashort pulse generation and amplification in ytterbium-doped fibers. Compact and ultrastable passively mode-locked fiber oscillators represent an ideal seed source for high performance femtosecond fiber amplification systems, which have been scaled towards kW-level average power and pulse energies well above the mJ-level. These laser systems will have significant impact in numerous scientific and industrial applications.
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Limpert, J. et al. (2016). Compact Ultrafast Oscillators and High Performance Ultrafast Amplifiers Based on Ytterbium-Doped Fibers. In: Nolte, S., Schrempel, F., Dausinger, F. (eds) Ultrashort Pulse Laser Technology. Springer Series in Optical Sciences, vol 195. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-17659-8_4
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