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Conference on Lasers and Electro-Optics

DPSK-based 65536-ary Ciphering for Secure Optical Communications

Takahiro Kodama, Gabriella Cincotti

Published Jan 1, 2019• 2 citations
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Abstract

We propose and demonstrate a secure DPSK-based multi-dimensional 216-ary block ciphering system using a multiport encoder/decoder for secure optical fiber transmission. The proposed scheme presents a very high physical-level confidentiality.
DOI
10.1364/cleo_at.2019.jth2a.77

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