Spinning-top dynamics of photorefractive grating

The photorefractive grating generated by two coupled waves produces a rich spatiotemporal dynamics such as those of solitons and chaos. In this paper, the dynamics of grating along with the slow-varying envelope of two coupled waves is studied where the photorefractive-coupling constant is large or more importantly the dynamics is much faster than the photorefractive response time of the material. Under this condition, new solutions of the dynamic grating equations are presented and analytically solved in the form of the Jacobi’s Elliptic functions. The spatiotemporal grating can result in a periodic space-charge field which in turn generates the space charge waves in the periodic case as a result of the spatiotemporal dynamics of the anisotropic two-wave mixing process. The theoretical work of the limiting case is in good agreement with the experimental results using a BaTiO₃ crystal.