Experimental demonstration of synchronous privacy enhanced chaotic temporal phase en/decryption for high speed secure optical communication

Abstract

Protecting confidential high speed optical signal transmission at the lowest physical layer is a critical challenge for modern fiber-optic communication systems. In this paper, we experimentally demonstrate a novel synchronous privacy enhanced chaotic temporal phase en/decryption scheme for high-speed physical layer secure optical communication. A remote chaos synchronization architecture relying on common source signal driving and private response hardware modules comprising of dispersive components and slave lasers is employed to generate synchronized private chaotic en/decryption signals, and simultaneously suppress residual driving-response correlation for enhancing the security. A proof-of-principle demonstration by secure transmission of a 28 Gb/s on-off-keying modulated confidential signal over 100 km single mode fiber link based on the private chaotic temporal phase en/decryption scheme is successfully achieved. The demonstrated hardware optical en/decryption approach may provide a promising way towards future ultra-high speed physical layer secure optical communication systems.