The response of optical fibres to gravitational waves
- Author(s)
- Thomas B Mieling
- Abstract
The response of optical fibre modes to plane gravitational waves (GW’s) of low frequency is computed. By solving perturbatively the Maxwell equations for step-index optical fibres in a GW 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.
- Organisation(s)
- Gravitational Physics, Research Network Quantum Aspects of Space Time
- Journal
- Classical and Quantum Gravity
- Volume
- 38
- No. of pages
- 31
- ISSN
- 0264-9381
- DOI
- https://doi.org/10.1088/1361-6382/ac0b2f
- Publication date
- 08-2021
- Peer reviewed
- Yes
- Austrian Fields of Science 2012
- 103036 Theoretical physics, 103021 Optics, 103028 Theory of relativity
- Keywords
- ASJC Scopus subject areas
- Physics and Astronomy (miscellaneous)
- Portal url
- https://ucris.univie.ac.at/portal/en/publications/the-response-of-optical-fibres-to-gravitational-waves(30cbe1d5-15f0-477d-96ae-57325415eb13).html