Operation of a diode-pumped continuous-wave thulium-doped fibre laser on the 3H4 – 3H6 transition at ≃1.97 μm is reported. The absorbed pump power at threshold for a multimode fibre with 40 μm core diameter was measured to be ≃20 mW.
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Carter et al. (1990) studied this question.