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Proceedings of SPIE, the International Society for Optical Engineering/Proceedings of SPIE

A secure optical communication system based on bent sequence

Hailei Xu, Jinfang Zhou, Menghu Cao, Kangsheng Chen

Published Nov 24, 2005• 0 citations
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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.

DOI
10.1117/12.636456

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Abstract In this work, we investigate the spectral encoding and decoding of ultrashort optical pulses using fiber Bragg gratings encoded with a 63-bit Gold sequence. The encoding is implemented through discrete ± π phase shifts in the periodic modulation of the refractive index along the grating. Using numerical simulations based on coupled-mode theory, we demonstrate that an input pulse with a 2 ps duration can be spectrally encoded by the grating, producing a distributed temporal structure after a Fourier transform. The original pulse can be recovered by propagating the encoded signal through a second grating with an inverse sequence, characterizing a correlated filtering process. The results show that encoded Bragg gratings can act as compact optical devices for pulse encoding and decoding in the spectral domain. Beyond the classical description, we discuss the quantum interpretation of the process. In the single-photon regime, the spectral transformation implemented by the encoded grating maps a single optical temporal mode into a superposition of multiple time-bin modes, enabling the generation and manipulation of high-dimensional temporal quantum states. These results indicate that encoded Bragg gratings constitute a promising platform for temporal mode engineering and may find applications in high-dimensional quantum communication systems [9, 10].