Gravitational Wave Detection with Michelson Interferometers

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Electromagnetic methods recently proposed for detecting gravitational waves modify the Michelson phase shift analysis (historically employed for special relativity). We suggest that a frequency modulation analysis is more suited to general relativity. An incident photon in the presence of a very long wavelength gravitational wave will have a finite probability of being returned as a final photon with a frequency shift whose magnitude is equal to the gravitational wave frequency. The effect is due to the non-linear coupling between electromagnetic and gravitational waves. The frequency modulation is derived directly from the Maxwell-Einstein equations.
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General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology

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http://salesiana.dossiersoluciones.com/handle/123456789/34654

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https://arxiv.org/abs/gr-qc/0307085
 http://arxiv.org/abs/gr-qc/0307085

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