An experiment is proposed to prove the stimulated emission of gravitational waves is experimentally possible. The proposal suggests that Josephson Junctions with dissimilar superconductors, an s-wave joined to a d-wave, can force spin 2 transitions, triggering the emission of gravitational waves.
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