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Phys. Rev. D 71, 122001 (2005) [12 pages]

Detection of gravity waves by phase modulation of the light from a distant star

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G. B. Lesovik1, A. V. Lebedev1,2, V. Mounutcharyan1, and T. Martin2
1Landau Institute for Theoretical Physics RAS, 117940 Moscow, Russia
2Centre de Physique Théorique et Université de la Méditerranée, Case 907, 13288 Marseille, France

Received 17 December 2004; published 3 June 2005

We propose a novel method for detecting gravitational waves (GW), where a light signal emitted from a distant star interacts with a local (also distant) GW source and travels towards the Earth, where it is detected. While traveling in the field of the GW, the light acquires specific phase modulation (which we account in the eikonal approximation). This phase modulation can be considered as a coherent spreading of the given initial photons energy over a set of satellite lines, spaced at the frequency of GW (from quantum point of view it is multigraviton absorption and emission processes). This coherent state of photons with the energy distributed among the set of equidistant lines, can be analyzed and identified on Earth either by passing the signal through a Fabry-Perot filter or by monitoring the intensity-intensity correlations at different times.

© 2005 The American Physical Society

URL:
http://link.aps.org/doi/10.1103/PhysRevD.71.122001
DOI:
10.1103/PhysRevD.71.122001
PACS:
04.80.Cc, 04.30.Db