Steady-state vectorial self-diffraction on a non-local photorefractive grating in a crystal of symmetry \overline{4}3m at symmetrical transmitting geometry

The steady-state two-wave interaction in a cubic crystal of the symmetry group 3m with the non-local photorefractive response in the absence of an external electric field is considered for the case of arbitrary interaction orientation with respect to the crystallographic coordinate system and for arbitrary intensities and polarization states of incident light waves. The self-diffraction problem is described on the basis of four coupled-wave equations in terms of the complex scalar amplitudes of components of the light waves with orthogonal linear polarization. The derived conservation laws are valid for the non-linear dependency of the photorefractive-grating amplitude on the modulation coefficient of the interference light pattern. It follows from these laws that the two non-unidirectional energy fluxes can form the total energy exchange between the two interacting light waves. A set of independent conservation laws allows us to decouple the coupled-wave equations and to obtain their analytical solution, at least, in the form of quadrature formulae. For example, such a solution is derived for the case of linearly polarized incident light waves and for the linearized dependency of the photorefractive-grating amplitude on the modulation coefficient. The explicit analytical expressions for the scalar amplitudes are obtained for the transversal electro-optic configuration of interaction. The possibility of polarization-state transformation of light waves without energy exchange between them is shown. Received: 30 July 2002 / Published online: 11 December 2002 RID="*" ID="*"Corresponding author. Fax: +7-3822/414321, E-mail: litvinov@ed.rk.tusur.ru