Wavelength conversion in the transmission of a message masked by optical chaos is experimentally demonstrated. In our setup, chaos is generated by a distributed-feedback laser subject to delayed optical feedback, and hides a message by additive chaos masking. The optical wavelength is converted, along the transmission line, by four-wave mixing in a semiconductor optical amplifier. At the receiver, the message is extracted by master–slave synchronization. Our experiments demonstrate that secure communications based on chaos are compatible with channel switching as required in reconfigurable optical networks.
All-optical wavelength conversion of a chaos masked signal
ANNOVAZZI LODI, VALERIO;AROMATARIS, GIUSEPPE;BENEDETTI, MAURO;CRISTIANI, ILARIA;MERLO, SABINA GIOVANNA;MINZIONI, PAOLO
2007-01-01
Abstract
Wavelength conversion in the transmission of a message masked by optical chaos is experimentally demonstrated. In our setup, chaos is generated by a distributed-feedback laser subject to delayed optical feedback, and hides a message by additive chaos masking. The optical wavelength is converted, along the transmission line, by four-wave mixing in a semiconductor optical amplifier. At the receiver, the message is extracted by master–slave synchronization. Our experiments demonstrate that secure communications based on chaos are compatible with channel switching as required in reconfigurable optical networks.File in questo prodotto:
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