Cumulative effects of laser-generated gravitational shock waves
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| author | Falcone, Riccardo Conti, Claudio |
| author_facet | Falcone, Riccardo Conti, Claudio |
| contents | The emission of light pulses is expected to generate gravitational waves, opening the possibility of controlling gravity in an Earthed laboratory. However, measuring the optically-driven spacetime deformations is challenging due to the inherently weak interaction. We explore the possibility to achieve a detectable gravitational effect from light emission by examining the cumulative effect of a sequence of laser-generated gravitational shock waves on a test particle. We derive an exact solution to the Einstein equations for cylindrically-shaped optical beams with constant energy density, imposing continuity condition for the metric and its first-order derivatives. Our analysis reveals that laser-induced gravitational fields cause a spatial shift in the test particle, which is measurable within current interferometric technology. |
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| spellingShingle | Cumulative effects of laser-generated gravitational shock waves Falcone, Riccardo Conti, Claudio General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology The emission of light pulses is expected to generate gravitational waves, opening the possibility of controlling gravity in an Earthed laboratory. However, measuring the optically-driven spacetime deformations is challenging due to the inherently weak interaction. We explore the possibility to achieve a detectable gravitational effect from light emission by examining the cumulative effect of a sequence of laser-generated gravitational shock waves on a test particle. We derive an exact solution to the Einstein equations for cylindrically-shaped optical beams with constant energy density, imposing continuity condition for the metric and its first-order derivatives. Our analysis reveals that laser-induced gravitational fields cause a spatial shift in the test particle, which is measurable within current interferometric technology. |
| title | Cumulative effects of laser-generated gravitational shock waves |
| topic | General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology |
| url | https://arxiv.org/abs/2503.05001 |