Open AccessDemonstration of coherent stealthy and encrypted transmission for data center interconnection
Author(s) -
Eyal Wohlgemuth,
Yaron Yoffe,
Tomer Yeminy,
Zeev Zalevsky,
Dan Sadot
Publication year - 2018
Publication title -
optics express
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.394
H-Index - 271
ISSN - 1094-4087
DOI - 10.1364/oe.26.007638
Subject(s) - optics , encryption , phase shift keying , transmission (telecommunications) , quadrature amplitude modulation , polarization division multiplexing , phase noise , bit error rate , computer science , physics , channel (broadcasting) , wavelength division multiplexing , telecommunications , computer network , wavelength
We show in an experiment a covert transmission of QPSK and 64-QAM over up to 100km of SSMF, digitally encrypted with spectral phase mask, buried under ASE noise with negative -15 dB/0.1nm OSNR. We record a post-FEC error free BER for a stealthy channel, at 16 Gbps on a single polarization.