International Conference on Optical Communications and Networks (ICOCN)

WDM Optical Steganography Based on Super-Continuum Light Source

Guorui Su, Tao Pu, Rong Wang, Tao Fang, Xiang Fang Peng, Jilin Zheng, Weifeng Mou, Yeteng Tan, Haiqin Shi

Published Aug 1, 2019• 4 citations

Abstract

In this paper, a 10 Gb/s stealth channel based on super-continuum light source in 120km SSMF transmission system is experimented, which can be hidden under the public WDM channel in both time and frequency domain.

DOI: 10.1109/icocn.2019.8934072

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