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Demonstration of Hardware-effective Phase shift-based Symbol-masking for Secure Coherent QPSK System

Takahiro Kodama, T. Miyazaki

Published Oct 1, 2018• 11 citations

Abstract

We propose and demonstrate a secure 10 Gsymbol/s QPSK system using digital-domain phase shift-based symbol-masking at the post-symbol mapper, which can be half circuit speed compared to the current commercialized 256-bit AES algorithm.

DOI: 10.1109/acp.2018.8596137

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