Title :
Passive Scrambling and Unscrambling for Secure Fiber Optic Communications
Author :
Shenping Li ; Daniel, Nimmy Anna ; Kuksenkov, Dmitri V ; Hemenway, Roe
Author_Institution :
Corning Inc., Corning, NY, USA
Abstract :
We propose an all-fiber based approach to scramble and un-scramble optical signal for secure fiber optic communications. A scrambler and un-scrambler pair with an operation range from 0.8 Gb/s to 1.4 Gb/s was demonstrated.
Keywords :
optical fibre communication; optical information processing; telecommunication security; all-fiber based approach; bit rate 0.8 Gbit/s to 1.4 Gbit/s; optical signal; passive scrambling; passive unscrambling; secure fiber optic communications; Cryptography; Delay; Optical fiber communication; Optical fibers; Optical interferometry; Optical modulation; Optical receivers; Optical refraction; Optical transmitters; Optical variables control;
Conference_Titel :
Optical Fiber communication/National Fiber Optic Engineers Conference, 2008. OFC/NFOEC 2008. Conference on
Conference_Location :
San Diego, CA
Print_ISBN :
978-1-55752-856-8
DOI :
10.1109/OFC.2008.4528238
