Influence of the Radial Index on the Stability of Laguerre-Gaussian Vortex Beams in Turbulent Media

Aleksandr S. Losev, Anastasia Fominova, Natalia I. Matveeva

This paper explores the selective suppression of Laguerre-Gaussian modes that are most vulnerable to atmospheric turbulence. Decomposing these modes into an orthogonal Zernike poly…