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In the present chapter, the implementation and performance of contemporary chaotic optical communication systems is presented, focusing on the physical layer encryption methods proposed so far. In communication systems that encrypt high-speed data within broadband chaotic carriers, authorized users share identical chaotic oscillators that are capable – after synchronization – of emitting exactly the same broadband chaotic optical signal. Several techniques - based on all-optical, electro-optical or photonic integrated circuits - that increase fiber communication security will be presented, while their drawbacks and limitations will be criticized. The efficiency of data encryption at the transmitter and the recovery performance from an authorized receiver are also presented through diverse fiber transmission experiments. In these experiments the security discrimination level between authorized and eavesdropping receivers are discussed. Finally, ultra-fast physical random number generators based on chaotic optical signals, as well as the potential of exploiting them in secure communication systems, are investigated.
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Argyris, A. (2011). Hardware Implementation of Chaos-Secured Optical Communication Systems. In: Kocarev, L., Lian, S. (eds) Chaos-Based Cryptography. Studies in Computational Intelligence, vol 354. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-20542-2_10
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