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OSA Advanced Photonics Congress

Photonic Symbol Masking Using Optical Encryption Key Generator for Secure Optical Regenerative Repeaters

Takahiro Kodama

Published Jan 1, 2020• 3 citations
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Abstract

Secure photonic symbol masking using XPM at the optical regenerative repeater node was experimentally demonstrated for the first time. The measured BER performances of 10 GSymbol/s coherent BPSK signal show FEC limit achievement.
DOI
10.1364/sppcom.2020.sptu3i.5

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