arXiv:2309.04191gr-qc
Gravitational waves from high-power twisted light
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Abstract
Recent advances in high-energy and high-peak-power laser systems have opened up new possibilities for fundamental physics research. In this work, the potential of twisted light for the generation of gravitational waves in the high frequency regime is explored for the first time. Focusing on Bessel beams, novel analytic expressions and numerical computations for the generated metric perturbations and associated powers are presented. Compelling evidence is provided that the properties of the generated gravitational waves, such as frequency, polarisation states and direction of emission, are controllable by the laser pulse parameters and optical arrangements.
There's a fairly established and uncontroversial mechanism for light to create gravitational waves... by turning the light into a black hole. Energy and mass are interchangable, photons are affected by gravity thus are gravitationally interacting particles, and if you put enough…
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