title: Laguerre-Gauss and Bessel-Gauss beams propagation through turbulence: analysis of channel efficiency.
abstract: As a means of increasing the channel capacity in free-space optical communication systems, two types of orbital angular momentum carrying beams, Bessel-Gauss and Laguerre-Gauss, are studied. In a series of numerical simulations, we show that Bessel-Gauss beams, pseudo-nondiffracting beams, outperform Laguerre-Gauss beams of various orders in channel efficiency and bit error rates.
authors.forename: Timothy
authors.initials: T
authors.lastname: Doster
authors.forename: Abbie T
authors.initials: AT
authors.lastname: Watnik