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Gravitational Wave Communication via Correlated Photon Tunneling Events in Optical Fiber Ring Resonators Arising from Hyperentangled Photon Pairs

Year: 2026

Type: article

Abstract: A laboratory Hertz-like gravitational wave communication system (“gravity radio”) is proposed using coherent optical-stress sources in high-Q optical fiber ring-resonator arrays. Hyperentangled photon pairs and coincident tunneling events provide timing, phase, and correlations, while the gravitational source is the local, conserved field-plus-medium stress-energy tensor generated by phase-locked coherent optical fields. Because the electromagnetic stress tensor is quadratic in the fields, the source can contain both sum-frequency and difference-frequency components. The latter is emphasized because it relaxes the localization, phase-stability, and receiver-transduction requirements. The directed coherent transverse-traceless stress amplitude and receiver equivalent strain noise are derived for a meter-scale transfer test.

Source: AppliedPhys

DOI: 10.3390/appliedphys2030009

Authors: Raymond Y. Chiao, Nader Inan, Jay Sharping

Institutions: University of California, Merced, Clovis Community College, California State University, Fresno

Language: English

Topic: Pulsars and Gravitational Waves Research

Subfield: Astronomy and Astrophysics

Field: Physics and Astronomy

Domain: Physical Sciences

Open Access status: gold

Estimated APC paid: $1,207

OpenAlex ID: W7204911000

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