Neodymium-doped yttrium lithium fluoride
Neodymium-doped yttrium lithium fluoride (Nd:YLF) is a lasing medium for arc lamp-pumped and diode-pumped solid-state lasers.As with Nd:YAG lasers, harmonic generation is frequently employed with Q-switched Nd:YLF to produce shorter wavelengths.A common application of frequency-doubled Nd:YLF pulses is to pump ultrafast Ti:Sapphire chirped-pulse amplifiers.Neodymium-doped YLF can provide higher pulse energies than Nd:YAG for repetition rates of a few kHz or less.It is also slightly water-soluble — a YLF laser rod may very slowly dissolve in cooling water which surrounds it.