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We report a diode-pumped rod-type Yb∶YAG laser amplifier operating at 1 kHz.Cryogenic cooling method was adopted to make the Yb∶YAG crystal work with four-level behavior.A single-frequency fiber laser acts as the seed in an actively Q-switched Yb∶YAG oscillator.The resonator delivers 5.75-mJ pulses at 1 kHz with a pulse duration of ap-proximately 40 ns.The pulses were amplified to 61 mJ in a four-pass rod-type Yb∶YAG amplifier with optical-to-optical efficiency of 24% in the main amplifier.The M2 parameter of the output laser is < 1.4.