A secure optical communication system based on bent sequence

Hailei Xu; Jinfang Zhou; Menghu Cao; Kangsheng Chen

doi:10.1117/12.636456

8 December 2005 A secure optical communication system based on bent sequence

Hailei Xu, Jinfang Zhou, Menghu Cao, Kangsheng Chen

Proceedings Volume 6021, Optical Transmission, Switching, and Subsystems III; 60213N (2005) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.636456
Event: Asia-Pacific Optical Communications, 2005, Shanghai, China

Abstract

Secure optical communication systems based on general bent sequences have been described which encode/decode information with arrays of fiber Bragg gratings (FBG). A broadband pulse coming from an optical source will be split into a series of separated pulses when it reaches the encoding FBG array. These pulses have different spectrums and different time delays. Because it is difficult for an attacker to recover the original pulse if he doesn't know the exact structure of the encoding FBG array, one can say that the information from the optical source has been encrypted. The coded signal will be recovered by the decoding FBG array having the inverse structure of the encoding FBG array. Because various structures of encoding FBG arrays could generate different reflected pulses to ensure the security of communication in the unsafe channels, grating tuning techniques are used broadly to increase the modes of the systems. Some models of the systems will be introduced and their security will be discussed. Bent sequence is generated by a general class of bent functions to charge the modes of FBG arrays in order to increase the security of our systems because of its excellent characteristics in cryptology. That makes the optical communication system safe against the interception. Simulation and discussion will be included and the applicability of the system in the future has been prospected.

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Hailei Xu, Jinfang Zhou, Menghu Cao, and Kangsheng Chen "A secure optical communication system based on bent sequence", Proc. SPIE 6021, Optical Transmission, Switching, and Subsystems III, 60213N (8 December 2005); https://doi.org/10.1117/12.636456

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