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Opt Express. 2018 Feb 19;26(4):4710-4722. doi: 10.1364/OE.26.004710.

Secure communications using nonlinear silicon photonic keys.

Optics express

Brian C Grubel, Bryan T Bosworth, Michael R Kossey, A Brinton Cooper, Mark A Foster, Amy C Foster

PMID: 29475318 DOI: 10.1364/OE.26.004710

Abstract

We present a secure communication system constructed using pairs of nonlinear photonic physical unclonable functions (PUFs) that harness physical chaos in integrated silicon micro-cavities. Compared to a large, electronically stored one-time pad, our method provisions large amounts of information within the intrinsically complex nanostructure of the micro-cavities. By probing a micro-cavity with a rapid sequence of spectrally-encoded ultrafast optical pulses and measuring the lightwave responses, we experimentally demonstrate the ability to extract 2.4 Gb of key material from a single micro-cavity device. Subsequently, in a secure communication experiment with pairs of devices, we achieve bit error rates below 10

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