We report on a compact double-stage ytterbium-doped-fiber chirped-pulse amplifier system delivering high temporal quality $270\mathrm{fs}$ pulses of $100\mathrm{\mu }\mathrm{J}$ energy at a repetition rate of $300\mathrm{kHz}$ resulting in a peak power of $340\mathrm{MW}$ . The recompression down to 1.1 times the Fourier limit is based on the exploitation of nonlinear phase shifts associated with mismatched stretcher–compressor units. A 1-m-long ytterbium-doped $80\mathrm{\mu }\mathrm{m}$ core diameter photonic crystal fiber is implemented as the power amplifier and allows the production of $143\mathrm{\mu }\mathrm{J}$ pulses before compression with an accumulated B integral of $17\mathrm{rad}$ throughout the amplification stages.

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