Gravitational influence of high power laser pulses
arXiv:2108.00896 · doi:10.1103/PhysRevD.105.104052
Abstract
The study of the generation of metric perturbation in the laboratory presents an opportunity to observe and understand more easily the mechanisms at work in gravitation. The present study will focus on the metric perturbation generated by a light pulse, as it could be generated by a current ultra-high power laser. Although of very small magnitude, the potential thus generated has advantages over that generated by mass acceleration, such as the absence of noise due to non uniform acceleration or the ability to scale up the experiment. It is indeed easier to scale up an electromagnetic oscillation compared to a mechanical oscillator, which must either be made with a large accelerated mass or a lot of small masses, all in sync, which acceleration must furthermore be quadripolar. Generation of metric deformation by laser could therefore prove useful in the long-term establishment of a laboratory experiment for the generation and detection of gravitational waves.
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