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Materials 2012, 5, 1954-1971; doi:10.3390/ma5101954 OPEN ACCESS materials ISSN 1996-1944 /journal/materials Review Recent Advances in the Photorefraction of Doped Lithium Niobate Crystals Yongfa Kong 1,2,*, Shiguo Liu 2 and Jingjun Xu 1,2 1 The MOE Key Laboratory of Weak-Light Nonlinear Photonics, TEDA Applied Physical School, Nankai University, Tianjin 300457, China; E-Mail: jjxu@ 2 School of Physics, Nankai University, Tianjin 300071, China; E-Mail: nkliusg@ * Author to whom correspondence should be addressed; E-Mail: kongyf@; Tel.: +86-22-2350-6257; Fax: +86-22-2350-5409. Received: 13 August 2012; in revised form: 18 September 2012 / Accepted: 12 October 2012 / Published: 22 October 2012 Abstract: The recent advances in the photorefraction of doped lithium niobate crystals are reviewed. Materials have always been the main obstacle for commercial applications of photorefractive holographic storage. Though iron-doped LiNbO3 is the mainstay of holographic data storage efforts, several shortcomings, especially the low response speed, impede it from becoming a commercial recording medium. This paper reviews the photorefractive characteristics of different dopants, especially tetravalent ions, doped and co-doped LiNbO crystals, including Hf, Zr and Sn monodoped LiNbO , Hf and Fe, Zr and 3 3 Fe doubly doped LiNbO , Zr, Fe and Mn, Zr, Cu and Ce triply doped LiNbO , Ru dop