Temporal phase mask encrypted optical steganography carried by amplified spontaneous emission noise.
Document Type
Article
Version Deposited
Published Version
Publication Date
1-13-2014
Publication Title
Optics Express
DOI
10.1364/OE.22.000954
Abstract
A temporal phase mask encryption method is proposed and experimentally demonstrated to improve the security of the stealth channel in an optical steganography system. The stealth channel is protected in two levels. In the first level, the data is carried by amplified spontaneous emission (ASE) noise, which cannot be detected in either the time domain or spectral domain. In the second level, even if the eavesdropper suspects the existence of the stealth channel, each data bit is covered by a fast changing phase mask. The phase mask code is always combined with the wide band noise from ASE. Without knowing the right phase mask code to recover the stealth data, the eavesdropper can only receive the noise like signal with randomized phase.
Recommended Citation
Wu, B., Wang, Z., Shastri, B., Chang, M. Frost, N., & Prucnal, P. (2014). Optics Express, 22(1), 954-961.
Comments
Optics Express is an Open Access journal.