Acta Optica Sinica, Volume. 42, Issue 14, 1406001(2022)

Encryption-Modulation Integrated System Based on Dual-Drive Mach-Zehnder Modulator

Huanyou Yan1, Xianfeng Tang1、*, Hailong Zhu1, Hongyan Wang2, Bohai Fang1, Chenyu Shen1, Zhifu Liu1, Peng Zhan3, and Xiaoguang Zhang1
Author Affiliations
  • 1State Key Laboratory of Information Photonics and Optical Communications, Beijing University of Posts and Telecommunications, Beijing 100876, China
  • 2Anhui Jiyuan Software Co. Ltd., State Grid Information & Telecommunication Group, Hefei 230088, Anhui , China
  • 3Information and Communication Branch of Hubei Electric Power Company, State Grid, Wuhan 430000, Hubei , China
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    To improve the physical layer security of the optical communication system, an encryption-modulation integrated scheme based on the dual-drive Mach-Zehnder modulator (DD-MZM) is proposed. In this scheme, the XOR encryption operation is realized between plaintext and key in the optical domain on the basis of the vector modulation mechanism in the DD-MZM, and the function reuse of encryption and modulation is achieved. The basic working principle of the proposed scheme and the optimization process of improving the extinction ratio of encrypted signals are described, and the prototype of an encryption-modulation integrated transmitter is successfully developed based on this scheme. The experimental results reveal that the modulation and encryption of signals with a transmission speed of 32 Gb/s can be successfully realized by this scheme, and the signal extinction ratio is as high as 13.2 dB. In addition, simulation analysis indicates that compared with the common on-off keying (OOK) system, the proposed system has a better extinction ratio for its received signals.

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    Huanyou Yan, Xianfeng Tang, Hailong Zhu, Hongyan Wang, Bohai Fang, Chenyu Shen, Zhifu Liu, Peng Zhan, Xiaoguang Zhang. Encryption-Modulation Integrated System Based on Dual-Drive Mach-Zehnder Modulator[J]. Acta Optica Sinica, 2022, 42(14): 1406001

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    Paper Information

    Category: Fiber Optics and Optical Communications

    Received: Dec. 14, 2021

    Accepted: Jan. 20, 2022

    Published Online: Jul. 15, 2022

    The Author Email: Tang Xianfeng (tangxianfengbupt@bupt.edu.cn)

    DOI:10.3788/AOS202242.1406001

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