Highly Secure and Reliable 7-Core Fiber Optical OFDM Access System Based on Chaos Encryption Inside Polar Code

Abstract

A highly secure and reliable optical orthogonal frequency division multiplexing passive optical network (OFDM-PON) based on the chaos encryption inside polar code scheme is proposed. The 3-dimensional Chua's circuit model is adopted to realize chaotic encryption during polar encoding with low complexity. The three chaotic sequences generated by Chua's circuit model are used to encrypt information index bit matrix, frozen bits (during polar encoding) and subcarrier sequence, respectively. The BER and security performance of the optical transmission system are enhanced by our method. A 70 Gb/s polar encoded encrypted 16 quadrature amplitude modulation OFDM signal transmission over a 2 km seven-core fiber is further experimentally demonstrated. The experimental results show that the polar encoded encrypted 16 QAM-OFDM obtains a 2.1 dB gain in receiver sensitivity at a BER of 10−3 under the same bit rate compared to the normal 16 QAM-OFDM without FEC. Moreover, the key space of the proposed scheme is 1084, which is large enough to guard against any malicious attacks from illegal ONUs effectively. The combined superiority of BER and security performance enable such OFDM-PON based on chaos encryption inside polar code, to have a high prospect of application in low-cost and reliable optical access system.

Keywords

• Chaos encryption inside polar code
• OFDM-PON
• seven-core fiber
• Chua's circuit model