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In the current work we investigate the propagation of electromagnetic waves in the field of gravitational waves. Starting with simple case of an electromagnetic wave travelling in the field of a plane monochromatic gravitational wave we…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2008-11-26 A. G. Polnarev , D. Baskaran

The interaction between gravitational and electromagnetic radiation has a rather long research history. It is well known, in particular, that gravity-wave distortions can drive propagating electromagnetic signals. Since forced oscillations…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2011-09-13 Christos G. Tsagas

We present a review of modern optical techniques being used and developed for the field of gravitational wave detection. We describe the current state-of-the-art of gravitational waves detector technologies with regard to optical layouts,…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2014-06-27 G. Hammond , S. Hild , M. Pitkin

We report for the first time general geometrical expressions for the angular resolution of an arbitrary network of interferometric gravitational-wave (GW) detectors when the arrival-time of a GW is unknown. We show explicitly elements that…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-03-13 Linqing Wen , Yanbei Chen

In order to expand the astrophysical reach of gravitational wave detectors, several interferometer topologies have been proposed to evade the thermodynamic and quantum mechanical limits in future detectors. In this work, we make a…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2015-06-16 Haixing Miao , Huan Yang , Rana X Adhikari , Yanbei Chen

New concepts were recently proposed for gravitational-wave (GW) detectors on the Moon. These include laser-interferometric detectors, proposed as free-range or optical-fiber interferometers, and inertial acceleration sensors. Some of them…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2022-08-29 Jan Harms

To simplify a number of considerations in the weak field approximation, including the determination of the response of interferometric gravitational wave detectors, the "transverse traceless" (TT) gauge is often used. While the…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2009-12-02 Istvan Racz

Space-borne gravitational wave detections raise new questions for heliophysics: how the Sun-Terrestrial space environment affect gravitational wave detection, and to what extent? Space-borne gravitational wave detectors use laser…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2025-09-23 Wei Su

This document presents a ray-optics analysis of the response of a two-element radio interferometer to the presence of a plane gravitational wave. A general expression for the differential phase observed between the two receiving stations as…

Astrophysics · Physics 2016-08-30 Kipp Cannon

We show that the Maxwell equations describing an electromagnetic wave are a mathematical consequence of the Einstein equations for the same wave. This fact is significant for the problem of the Einsteinian metrics corresponding to the…

General Physics · Physics 2011-06-14 A. Loinger , T. Marsico

We show that a recent claim that matter wave interferometers have a much higher sensitivity than laser interferometers for a comparable physical setup is unfounded. We point out where the mistake in the earlier analysis is made. We also…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2013-05-29 Albert Roura , Dieter R. Brill , B. L. Hu , Charles W. Misner , William D. Phillips

Intense laser fields have been proposed as a means to generate light-induced gravitational effects, providing a novel approach to investigate gravity and its coupling to electromagnetism in a controlled laboratory setting. In this article,…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-06-09 F. Fillion-Gourdeau , S. MacLean

Gravitational Waves (GWs) have been detected in the $\sim$100 Hz and nHz bands, but most of the gravitational spectrum remains unobserved. A variety of detector concepts have been proposed to expand the range of observable frequencies. In…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2024-05-03 Sebastian Baum , Zachary Bogorad , Peter W. Graham

In this article, which will appear as a chapter in the Handbook of Gravitational Wave Astronomy, we will describe the detection of gravitational waves with space-based interferometric gravitational wave observatories. We will provide an…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2022-01-27 Jonathan R Gair , Martin Hewitson , Antoine Petiteau , Guido Mueller

The role that the quantum properties of a gravitational wave could play in the detection of gravitational radiation is analyzed. It is not only corroborated that in the current laser-interferometric detectors the resolution of the…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2009-10-31 A. Camacho

The first generation of ground-based interferometric gravitational wave detectors, LIGO, GEO and Virgo, have operated and taken data at their design sensitivities over the last few years. The data has been examined for the presence of…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2015-06-15 Marie Anne Bizouard , Maria Alessandra Papa

Terrestrial laser interferometers for gravitational-wave detection made the landmark first detection of gravitational waves in 2015. We provide an overview of the history of how these laser interferometers prevailed as the most promising…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2022-07-20 Katherine L Dooley , Hartmut Grote , Jo van den Brand

The interactions of gravitational waves with interstellar matter, dealing with resonant wave-particle and wave-wave interactions, are considered on the basis of magnetic-type Maxwell-Vlasov equations. It is found that the behavior of the…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2012-03-27 X. Q. Li , S. Q. Liu , X. Y. Tao

The first generation of gravitational wave interferometric detectors has taken data at, or close to, their design sensitivity. This data has been searched for a broad range of gravitational wave signatures. An overview of gravitational wave…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2011-01-28 Stephen Fairhurst , Gianluca M Guidi , Patrice Hello , John T Whelan , Graham Woan

In this paper, we have considered how to detect the processes of plane gravitational waves colliding. The degenerate Ferrari-Ibanez solution describes the collision of plane gravitational waves with aligned linear polarization, and the…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2019-09-27 Dongdong Wei , Xinhe Meng , Bin Wang