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Published on: August 27, 2019
Highly Transmitting Modes of Light in Dynamic Atmospheric Turbulence
David Bachmann1, Mathieu Isoard1, Vyacheslav Shatokhin1,2
1Physikalisches Institut, Albert-Ludwigs-Universität Freiburg, Hermann-Herder-Straße 3, D-79104 Freiburg, Germany.
Abstract:
We show that instantaneous spatial singular modes of light in a dynamically evolving, turbulent atmosphere offer significantly improved high-fidelity signal transmission as compared to standard encoding bases corrected by adaptive optics. Their enhanced stability in stronger turbulence is associated with a subdiffusive algebraic decay of the transmitted power with evolution time.
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