We report on an all-normal-dispersion mode-locked fiber laser based on a large-mode-area Yb-doped microstructure fiber and using a high nonlinear modulation depth semiconductor saturable absorber mirror. The laser delivers $3.3\mathrm{W}$ of average output power with positively chirped $5.5\mathrm{ps}$ pulses at a center wavelength of $1033\mathrm{nm}$ . The pulse repetition rate is $46.4\mathrm{MHz}$ , which results in an energy per pulse of $71\mathrm{nJ}$ . These pulses are extracavity dechirped down to $516\mathrm{fs}$ by using bulk gratings. The average power of the dechirped pulses is $2.3\mathrm{W}$ , which corresponds to a peak power of more than $96\mathrm{kW}$ .

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