Pulse fidelity control in a 20-μJ sub-200-fs monolithic Yb-fiber amplifier

We discuss nonlinearity management versus energy scalability and compressibility in a three-stage monolithic 100-kHz repetition rate Yb-fiber amplifier designed as a driver source for the generation and tunable parametric amplification of a carrier-envelope phase stable white-light supercontinuum.

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