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Optics Express

Demonstration of coherent stealthy and encrypted transmission for data center interconnection

Eyal Wohlgemuth, Yaron Yoffe, Tomer Yeminy, Zeev Zalevsky, Dan Sadot

Published Mar 15, 2018• 16 citations
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Abstract

We show in an experiment a covert transmission of QPSK and 64-QAM over up to 100km of SSMF, digitally encrypted with spectral phase mask, buried under ASE noise with negative -15 dB/0.1nm OSNR. We record a post-FEC error free BER for a stealthy channel, at 16 Gbps on a single polarization.
DOI
10.1364/oe.26.007638

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