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For high-power use, chirped gratings are especially suitable for reduc-
ing nonlinear effects in the fiber by stretching pulses, reducing the peak
power before amplification [13,83].
Adjustment of the chirp of the grating also allows the effects of higher-
order dispersion to be canceled [10].

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