“…Previously, lasing under in-band pumping was obtained in various erbium-containing materials, such as garnet [3,5], vanadate [6 - 9], sesquioxide [10] and tungstate [11,12] crystals. The maximum slope efficiency with respect to the absorbed pump power for the Er : LuVO 4 crystal pumped by a fibre laser was 64 % in the cw regime [8].…”