Laser Interferometric Detectors of Gravitational Waves

Preprint

31 March 1993

preprint
Published by arXiv in arXiv

https://doi.org/10.48550/arXiv.astro-ph/9303018

Abstract

A laser interferometric detector of gravitational waves is studied and a complete solution (to first order in the metric perturbation) of the coupled Einstein-Maxwell equations with appropriate boundary conditions for the light beams is determined. The phase shift, the light deflection and the rotation of the polarization axis induced by gravitational waves are computed. The results are compared with previous literature, and are shown to hold also for detectors which are large in comparison with the gravitational wavelength.

Keywords

LASER INTERFEROMETRIC DETECTOR
DETECTOR OF GRAVITATIONAL
GRAVITATIONAL WAVES
POLARIZATION
PHASE SHIFT
WAVES

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Version 1, 1993-03-31, ArXiv
Published version: Classical and Quantum Gravity, 10 (6), 1189.

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