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A high energy monolithic all fiber chirped pulse amplification (CPA) system composed of fiber-silicate glass fiber is demonstrated in this work. In this compact system, the optical stretcher consists of two large dispersion chirped fiber Bragg gratings that offer a high stretch ratio to lower the nonlinearity that accumulates in the fiber amplifier. By employing high gain silicate glass fiber with a length of 20 cm as the main amplifier, an optimal balance of pulse energy and the B-integral is achieved. An amplified power of 42.6 W, corresponding to a pulse energy of 213 µJ, is obtained with an injection power of 100 mW. After compression, the laser pulses are compressed by a novel polarization-controlled double-pass configuration of a chirped volume Bragg grating (CVBG) to match the dispersion of the fiber stretcher. A total compression efficiency of 79.8% is obtained. The dispersion between the stretcher and the compressor is matched with the self-made temperature tuning device of the fiber grating. An optimized pulse width of 781 fs and a pulse energy of 170 µJ are obtained with the single-mode beam profile. To the best of our knowledge, this is the highest energy ever obtained with a single-mode beam profile for a spliced monolithic all-fiber CPA system. This compact high-energy fiber system will be useful in scientific research and industrial applications. © 2021 Elsevier Ltd