A monolithic cladding pumped holmium-doped fibre laser

We present a single-mode, monolithic holmium-doped silica fibre laser resonantly pumped by thulium-doped fibre lasers through a fused fibre pump combiner. We report the highest achieved output power for a holmium laser of 407 W.

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