Passively mode-locked fibre lasers are versatile, low-cost sources of pulsed radiation that are attractive for many applications. Although initially developed for the generation of soliton-like fs pulses, these lasers are now also used for the production of longer, strongly chirped pulses with very high energies, in the normal dispersion regime. All-normal-dispersion fibre lasers, which allow producing dissipative solitons with energies up to several tens of nJ and sub-ps durations after dechirping [1], deserve a particular mention.