Security-Enhanced Electro-Optic Mutual Injection Secure Communication Scheme With Time-Delay Signature Suppressing

Abstract

In this article, we propose and numerically demonstrate a novel dual-phase modulated time-delay signature (TDS) concealed communication system. The proposed system addresses the fatal disadvantage of conventional electro-optic chaotic systems in that TDS is vulnerable to detection. Combined with the dispersive devices ahead, which significantly expands the complexity of the signal, the scheme perturbs the transmitted data with the mutual injection of the feedforward and feedback branches in the phase, strengthening the nonlinear effect of the system considerably. In addition, the key space of the system against illegal users’ exhaustive attack within reasonable parameters reaches 1019, which is 14 orders of magnitude larger than that of the classical electro-optic system. A confidential 32 G/s OOK signal was transmitted over 100 km and successfully recovered. Numerical results demonstrate that the chaotic system can tolerate minor parameter mismatches which are controllable in practice, proving that the system can be used for secure communication.

Keywords

• Electro-optic modulation
• optical feedback
• time-delay concealment
• secure communication