Conference on Lasers and Electro-Optics

Physical-Layer Secure Optical Communication Based on Randomized Phase Space in Pseudo-3-Party Infrastructure

Kh Arif Shahriar, Mostafa Khalil, Adrian Chan, Lawrence R. Chen, Randy Kuang, David V. Plant

Published Jan 1, 2022• 6 citations

Abstract

We experimentally demonstrate a novel optical communication scheme that implements physical layer security through phase randomization in a round-trip mechanism involving pseudo-3-party transmitter/receiver infrastructure, achieving 200 Gbits/s transmission over 80 km SMF with QPSK modulation.

DOI: 10.1364/cleo_si.2022.sf4l.3

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