"The Kerr-enhanced optical spring method enhances gravitational wave detection, offering new insights into cosmic phenomena and neutron star structures. Credit: SciTechDaily.com" (ScitechDaily, Unlocking the Universe: Kerr-Enhanced Optical Springs for Next-Gen Gravitational Wave Detectors)
The next-generation gravity wave detectors can be more sensitive and compact than ever imagined. In some scenarios, the nano-size mirrors with as high a reflection as possible can create an optical structure. Where the laser ray's length is thousands of kilometers. This thing is quite hard to make.
If researchers create that structure using mirrors that reflect 100%. The system can detect the brightness of laser rays. And when the gravity wave hits those laser rays, it changes their brightness.
But the other thing is what if researchers can stretch light? In stretching light the length of the light surface is big. And that makes it possible to create a system. That can detect gravity waves
"Kerr-enhanced optical spring demonstrates tunable non-linearity, presenting potential applications for enhancing GWD sensitivity and in various optomechanical systems. Credit: Tokyo Tech" (ScitechDaily,Unlocking the Universe: Kerr-Enhanced Optical Springs for Next-Gen Gravitational Wave Detectors)
The Kerr-enhanced magneto-optical springs can make the next-generation gravity wave detectors (GWD)
But then we can imagine the case that the sensor uses the magneto-optical springs. In some ideas, the magneto-optical spinning structures can harvest the gravity waves, if they are sensitive enough. The problem is that gravity waves are so weak. Gravity waves must impact enough energy to the sensor that it can detect changes in its structure.
The GWD sensors are the newest tools for the research universe. Those things offer the possibility of researching black hole's internal structures.
The detectable gravity waves are forming in the black hole's event horizon. But their origin is far inside the event horizon. That means that black holes are like an onion of multiple internal gravity fields.
All gravitational objects send gravity waves. Those things can also used to give information about the internal structures of other objects. But the problem is how to create GWD that has high enough accuracy. Gravity wave detectors are tools that give information about the most dominating force in the universe.
Can we someday benefit from gravity waves as an energy source?
The GWD sensors can also work as pathfinders for the systems that use gravity waves as an energy source. The sensor that measures gravitational waves harvests energy from those waves. Gravity waves can transfer energy to photons. Those things are interactions. And photons should also transfer energy to the gravity waves.
So large-scale systems could use laser rays to capture gravity waves. Or gravity waves could transport energy to some lightweight, low-energy particles. And then laser rays can block the gravity waves. That thing makes those particles like free gluons or low-energy quarks deliver their extra energy. And maybe someday, we can make those gluon clouds.
https://scitechdaily.com/unlocking-the-universe-kerr-enhanced-optical-springs-for-next-gen-gravitational-wave-detectors/
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kerr_effect
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Magneto-optic_effect
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Magneto-optic_Kerr_effect
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