Fig. 1. Simulation results showing self-similar parabolic pulse amplification^［8］

Fig. 2. Schematic of the PCMA setup

Fig. 3. Simulation results of the PCMA for different pre-chirp^［29］

Fig. 4. Compressed pulse duration and the optimum pre-chirping GDD versus the average power of the compressed pulses^［33］

Fig. 5. Photo of circularly polarized pulse PCMA system

Fig. 6. Experimental results of the PCMA for circularly and linearly polarized pulses^［38］

Fig. 7. Compressed pulses by chirped mirrors at 103.4 W output^［38］

Fig. 8. Experimental setup of DP-PCMA

Fig. 9. Comparison of output power performance of amplification system^［45］

Fig. 10. Output pulse optimized by negative pre-chirp^［45］

Fig. 11. Simulated pulse evolution in Yb-doped fiber^［46］

Fig. 12. Experimental demonstration of a gain managed amplifier^［46］

Fig. 13. Average power，pulse energy and pulse width obtained by different nonlinear fiber amplification techniques

Fig. 14. Schematic of the passive DPA based on birefringent plates^［52］

Fig. 15. Combining efficiency versus thickness of the first YVO4 for different number of replicas in PCM-DPA system^［59］

Fig. 16. Simulated results of the PCM-DPA system based on composite birefringent plates

Fig. 17. Simulated results of the PCM-DPA based on 64 replicas