Highly-transmitting modes of light in dynamic atmospheric turbulence

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.

6 pages, 4 figures (article) and 7 pages, 6 figures (supplemental material)

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