Compact Gravity Wave Detector

Authors

Munawar Karim, St. John Fisher UniversityFollow
Kris H. Green, St. John Fisher UniversityFollow

Document Type

Article

Publication Date

8-2003

Abstract

An incoming gravity wave being a stress wave is a surface with intrinsic curvature. When a light beam is parallel transported on this non-Euclidian surface it acquires an excess phase which accumulates with each curcuit. We calculate the separate contributions to excess phase from the wave geometry as well as the dynamic response of mirrors in a Michelson interferometer. Using these results and a combination of analogue and digital signal processing techniques we show how a compact interferometer can be made sensitive to gravity waves of amplitude density 10−23/√Hz within a frequency range 10−4Hz to 104Hz. As an example we describe a 10cm Michelson interferometer designed to measure gravity waves from sources as far as the Virgo cluster.

Comments

Manuscript available at arXiv: http://arxiv.org/abs/gr-qc/0209015

Publication Information

Karim, Munawar and Green, Kris H., "Compact Gravity Wave Detector" (2003). Mathematical and Computing Sciences Faculty/Staff Publications. Paper 7.
https://fisherpub.sjf.edu/math_facpub/7

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