The Response of Optical Fibres to Gravitational Waves
General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology
2021-07-16 v2 Optics
Abstract
The response of optical fibre modes to plane gravitational waves of low frequency is computed. By solving perturbatively the Maxwell equations for step-index optical fibres in a gravitational wave background and implementing appropriate boundary conditions to describe single-mode fibres, explicit formulae for the perturbations of the phase and the polarisation of the fibre modes are obtained.
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@article{arxiv.2103.05289,
title = {The Response of Optical Fibres to Gravitational Waves},
author = {Thomas Mieling},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2103.05289},
year = {2021}
}
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36 pages, 1 figure