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We present a compact laser system made of a hybrid Q-switched Nd3+:YAG/Cr4+:YAG microchip laser seeding an Yb-doped specialty-fiber amplifier with gain factor as high as 20-25 dB achieved for nanosecond single-mode pulses at 1–10-kHz repetition rate.
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