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Enhanced photorefractive performance and optical damage resistance in zirconium and uranium co-doped lithium niobate crystals

Tian Tian, ORCID logo *a   Dong Zhang,a   Tingfeng Wu,a   Weiwei Wang,b   Hongde Liu, ORCID logo c   Dahuai Zheng, ORCID logo c   Yaoqing Chu,a   Hui Shen ORCID logo a  and  Jiayue Xu*a  

* Corresponding authors

a Institute of Crystal Growth, School of Materials Science and Engineering, Shanghai Institute of Technology, Shanghai 201418, China
E-mail: tiant@sit.edu.cn, xujiayue@sit.edu.cn

b Shijiazhuang Tiedao University, Shijiazhuang, China

c MOE Key Laboratory of Weak-Light Nonlinear Photonics, School of Physics and TEDA Institute of Applied Physics, Nankai University, Tianjin 300071, China

Abstract

Zirconium and uranium co-doped LiNbO3 crystals were grown by the modified Bridgman method. The co-doping simultaneously shortens the photorefractive response to 600 ms and enhances optical damage resistance to ∼105 W cm−2 at 442 nm. This dual improvement offers a promising material platform for high-power integrated LiNbO3 photonic applications.

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DOI
https://doi.org/10.1039/D6CE00116E
Article type
Communication
Submitted
06 Feb 2026
Accepted
08 Apr 2026
First published
22 Apr 2026

CrystEngComm, 2026, Advance Article

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Enhanced photorefractive performance and optical damage resistance in zirconium and uranium co-doped lithium niobate crystals

T. Tian, D. Zhang, T. Wu, W. Wang, H. Liu, D. Zheng, Y. Chu, H. Shen and J. Xu, CrystEngComm, 2026, Advance Article , DOI: 10.1039/D6CE00116E

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