Self-phase modulation of spherical gravitational waves
General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology
2009-11-10 v1 Astrophysics
Abstract
Self-phase modulation of spherical gravitational wavepackets propagating in a flat space-time in the presence of a tenuous distribution of matter is considered. Analogies with respect to similar effects in nonlinear optics are explored. Self phase modulation of waves emitted from a single source can eventually lead to an efficient energy dilution of the gravitational wave energy over an increasingly large spectral range. An explicit criterium for the occurrence of a significant spectral energy dilution is established.
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@article{arxiv.gr-qc/0307031,
title = {Self-phase modulation of spherical gravitational waves},
author = {J. T. Mendonca and V. Cardoso and M. Marklund and M. Servin and G. Brodin},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:gr-qc/0307031},
year = {2009}
}
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11 pages