Very large-core, single-mode, Yb-doped photonic crystal rod for multi-MW peak power generation

In this paper, we describe an intrinsically single-mode, Yb-doped photonic-crystal rod featuring a core of ~70?m diameter. When used as the final amplifier in a pulsed master-oscillator/power-amplifier system, the rod produced ~1ns, spectrally narrow, diffraction-limited pulses of ~2MW peak power at ~10 kHz repetition rate.