The organic dyes (amaranth, rhodamine and methyl orange) are doped in potassium dihydrogen phosphate (KDP) crystals. Influences of super saturation and dye concentration in the solution, on the color and crystal habit of KDP, were observed. Amaranth in the solution at low super saturation and high dye concentration colored the pyramidal section (101) of the crystals. The highly super saturated solutions produce entirely colored crystals. The concentration of dopants in the mother solution was varied from 0.1 to 10 mol %. The studies on pure and doped KDP crystals clearly indicate the effect of dopants on the crystal structure, in the absorption of IR frequencies and the non-linear optical property. Dye doping improves the NLO properties of the grown crystals. The frequencies with their relative intensities are obtained in FT-IR of pure and doped KDP. The very weak bands for dopants indicate its presence in low concentration. In view of the ever-growing importance of ion beams in optical material processing, this letter reports room temperature MeV Li+ ion irradiation-induced depletion of hydrogen from single crystalline KDP which has wide applications as a non-linear optical material in optoelectronics technology. Irradiations have been performed using 50 MeV Li+ ions up to a maximum dose of 2.4 x 10(15) ions cm(-2) Simultaneously, detecting the elastically recoiled Li atoms has done hydrogen profiling. Bare KDP crystals show hydrogen loss of 72% at the maximum dose whereas Au-coated samples show that 60 Au layer acts as a barrier to considerably reduce hydrogen depletion from KDP. A possible explanation of these phenomena is suggested. (c) 2007 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.