  We investigate the generation of gravitational waves from the rotation of an
orthogonal pulsar magnetosphere in flat space time. We calculate the first
order metric perturbation due to the rotation of the non-axisymmetric
distribution of electromagnetic energy density around the central star. We show
that gravitational waves from a strong magnetic field pulsar right after its
formation within a distance of 1 kpc may be detectable with the new generation
of gravitational wave detectors.
