We report an efficient diode-pumped high-power cryogenic regenerative amplifier operating at 1019 nm employing the c axis of Yb:YLF. Compared to usually selected 1017 transition a axis, c-axis line has three-fold higher emission cross section and still possesses full-width half-maximum (FWHM) 6.5 125 K. The chirped-pulse system is seeded by fiber front-end with energy 30 nJ stretched pulse widt...