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Article Dans Une Revue Physical Review D Année : 2022

Gravitational influence of high power laser pulses

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The study of the generation of metric perturbation in the laboratory presents an opportunity to observe and understand more easily the mechanisms at work in gravitation. The present study will focus on the metric perturbation generated by a light pulse, as it could be generated by a current ultrahigh power laser. Although of very small magnitude, the potential thus generated has advantages over that generated by mass acceleration, such as the absence of noise due to nonuniform acceleration or the ability to scale up the experiment. It is indeed easier to scale up an electromagnetic oscillation compared to a mechanical oscillator, which must either be made with a large accelerated mass or a lot of small masses, all in sync, which acceleration must furthermore be quadripolar. Generation of metric deformation by laser could therefore prove useful in the long-term establishment of a laboratory experiment for the generation and detection of gravitational waves.

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hal-03321156 , version 1 (17-08-2021)

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Paul Lageyre, Emmanuel d'Humieres, Xavier Ribeyre. Gravitational influence of high power laser pulses. Physical Review D, 2022, 105 (10), pp.104052. ⟨10.1103/PhysRevD.105.104052⟩. ⟨hal-03321156⟩

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