Gravitational Optics: Self-phase modulation and harmonic cascades

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2002-09-21

arxiv.org/abs/gr-qc/0209076v2

Phys.Rev. D66 (2002) 104009

Astronomy and Astrophysics

Astrophysics

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology

12 pages, REVTEX4

Scientific paper

10.1103/PhysRevD.66.104009

Nonlinear wave interaction of low amplitude gravitational waves in flat space-time is considered. Analogy with optics is established. It is shown that the flat metric space-time is equivalent to a centro-symmetric optical medium, with no second order susceptibility. The lowest order nonlinear effects are those due to the third order nonlinearity and include self-phase modulation and high harmonic generation. These processes lead to an efficient energy dilution of the gravitational wave energy over an increasingly large spectral range.

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