EP1782562A2 - Systeme prive et securise de communications optiques utilisant une ligne a retard a piquage optique - Google Patents

Systeme prive et securise de communications optiques utilisant une ligne a retard a piquage optique

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EP1782562A2
EP1782562A2 EP04778329A EP04778329A EP1782562A2 EP 1782562 A2 EP1782562 A2 EP 1782562A2 EP 04778329 A EP04778329 A EP 04778329A EP 04778329 A EP04778329 A EP 04778329A EP 1782562 A2 EP1782562 A2 EP 1782562A2
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    • H—ELECTRICITY
    • H04—ELECTRIC COMMUNICATION TECHNIQUE
    • H04B—TRANSMISSION
    • H04B10/00—Transmission systems employing electromagnetic waves other than radio-waves, e.g. infrared, visible or ultraviolet light, or employing corpuscular radiation, e.g. quantum communication
    • H04B10/80—Optical aspects relating to the use of optical transmission for specific applications, not provided for in groups H04B10/03 - H04B10/70, e.g. optical power feeding or optical transmission through water
    • H04B10/85—Protection from unauthorised access, e.g. eavesdrop protection
    • H—ELECTRICITY
    • H04—ELECTRIC COMMUNICATION TECHNIQUE
    • H04K—SECRET COMMUNICATION; JAMMING OF COMMUNICATION
    • H04K1/00—Secret communication
    • H04K1/04—Secret communication by frequency scrambling, i.e. by transposing or inverting parts of the frequency band or by inverting the whole band
    • G—PHYSICS
    • G02—OPTICS
    • G02B—OPTICAL ELEMENTS, SYSTEMS OR APPARATUS
    • G02B6/00—Light guides; Structural details of arrangements comprising light guides and other optical elements, e.g. couplings
    • G02B6/24—Coupling light guides
    • G02B6/26—Optical coupling means
    • G02B6/28—Optical coupling means having data bus means, i.e. plural waveguides interconnected and providing an inherently bidirectional system by mixing and splitting signals
    • G02B6/2804—Optical coupling means having data bus means, i.e. plural waveguides interconnected and providing an inherently bidirectional system by mixing and splitting signals forming multipart couplers without wavelength selective elements, e.g. "T" couplers, star couplers
    • G02B6/2861—Optical coupling means having data bus means, i.e. plural waveguides interconnected and providing an inherently bidirectional system by mixing and splitting signals forming multipart couplers without wavelength selective elements, e.g. "T" couplers, star couplers using fibre optic delay lines and optical elements associated with them, e.g. for use in signal processing, e.g. filtering
    • G—PHYSICS
    • G02—OPTICS
    • G02B—OPTICAL ELEMENTS, SYSTEMS OR APPARATUS
    • G02B6/00—Light guides; Structural details of arrangements comprising light guides and other optical elements, e.g. couplings
    • G02B6/24—Coupling light guides
    • G02B6/26—Optical coupling means
    • G02B6/28—Optical coupling means having data bus means, i.e. plural waveguides interconnected and providing an inherently bidirectional system by mixing and splitting signals
    • G02B6/293—Optical coupling means having data bus means, i.e. plural waveguides interconnected and providing an inherently bidirectional system by mixing and splitting signals with wavelength selective means
    • G02B6/29346—Optical coupling means having data bus means, i.e. plural waveguides interconnected and providing an inherently bidirectional system by mixing and splitting signals with wavelength selective means operating by wave or beam interference
    • G02B6/29358—Multiple beam interferometer external to a light guide, e.g. Fabry-Pérot, etalon, VIPA plate, OTDL plate, continuous interferometer, parallel plate resonator

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  • the present invention relates generally to optical systems, including what may be referred to as optical communications systems, optical telecommunications systems and optical networks, and more particularly to a method and system for information security in an optical transmission system.
  • WDM Wavelength Division Multiplexing
  • Brackett et al in U.S. patent 4,866,699 teaches an analog method of coding and decoding for multi-user communications based on optical frequency domain coding and decoding of coherently related spectral components. Brackett fails to address any secure or privacy communication applications where the spectral components are not coherently related.
  • one object in accordance with the present invention is to improve optical communications security by providing an analog method of protecting transmissions that is lower in cost, volume, weight and/or power, especially at high transmission bit rates.
  • the present invention in a preferred embodiment, provides an analog method and apparatus for effectively protecting electronic communications that may be transmitted, for example, over a fiber optic or free-space network.
  • the present invention may use a combination of an Optical Tapped Delay Line (OTDL), as disclosed in U.S. patent 6,608,721 (which patent is incorporated herein by reference), with known methods of altering the properties of an analog signal.
  • OTDL Optical Tapped Delay Line
  • a privacy system can be described as a system where the source signal is sufficiently protected to make unauthorized interception exceptionally difficult for the majority of potential adversaries, but not so difficult as to prevent interception by a sophisticated, well-funded and determined adversary, such as a government.
  • a secure system is one in which the transmitted information signal is well protected against unauthorized intrusion by highly sophisticated adversaries having extensive computing resources.
  • the security provided in accordance with the present invention can attain many levels of security, from a privacy system to a truly secure system, by, for example: (1) varying the number of sub-bands; (2) changing the analog properties of the sub-bands by altering the phase, introducing time delays, or shifting the originating signal's frequency components; and (3) controlling the periodicity of the changes.
  • the rate of signal transmission also affects the probability of signal interception. For example, a 10 gigabit per second signal is inherently more difficult to intercept than a 2.5 gigabit per second signal.
  • the present invention in a preferred embodiment, is capable of protecting optical signals at bit rates exceeding 1 gigabit per second.
  • a transmission using a preferred embodiment of the present invention is protected from an attack because any attack requires coherent detection of a large bandwidth of analog data at a high-precision digitization rate, and even if coherently intercepted, the properties of the signal are scrambled to the extent that recovery is virtually impossible.
  • an OTDL device with 128 sub-bands and 10 different phase shift combinations requires a brute-force attack approaching 10 128 tries to coherently recover the signal, a feat not possible with current analog-to-digital conversion technology combined with the fastest supercomputer. To make interception even less likely, the sub-band distortion pattern can be periodically changed.
  • Figure 1 illustrates an example of an Optical Tapped Delay Line (OTDL).
  • OTDL Optical Tapped Delay Line
  • Figure 2 illustrates an example of an operational side view of an OTDL device.
  • Figure 3 illustrates an example of an operational side view of a preferred embodiment of the present invention operating in reflective mode.
  • Figure 4 illustrates an example of a signal before, during and after transmission through a preferred embodiment of the present invention.
  • Figure 5 illustrates an example of a preferred embodiment of the present invention in transmissive mode.
  • Figure 6 illustrates an example of an input carrier frequency shifting embodiment of the present invention in reflective mode.
  • Figure 7 illustrates an example of an input carrier frequency shifting embodiment of the present invention in transmissive mode.
  • Figure 8 illustrates an example of another embodiment of the present invention that uses two OTDL devices to obtain very high resolution sub-bands.
  • FIGS. 1 and 2 illustrate examples of the previously referenced OTDL device for demultiplexing a multi-channel WDM band into individual channels.
  • a detailed explanation of the device is provided in U.S. patent 6,608,721 (incorporated herein by reference), but the operation will be briefly outlined here to facilitate understanding of some preferred embodiments of the invention.
  • six collimated input beams 230a - 23Of enter an Optical Tapped Delay Line (OTDL) 231.
  • the origin of the beams may be, for example, the collimated outputs of six optical fibers (not shown) where each fiber typically carries multiple wavelengths.
  • a fully reflective coating 232 on plate 235 and a partially reflective coating 236 on plate 237 cause each of the input beams entering the device to be multiply reflected within a cavity 233.
  • a portion of each beam, a beamlet exits the cavity at a plurality of taps 240a - f, with each succeeding exiting portion being time delayed with respect to the preceding portion.
  • the various output beams are then directed to an anamorphic optical system having a cylinder lens 242 and a spherical lens 245.
  • the anamorphic optical system 242, 245 performs the functions of: 1) Fourier transformation of the output of the cavity 231 in the vertical dimension y, and 2) imaging of the output beams of the OTDL 231 in the horizontal dimension x onto an output surface 246.
  • the outputs are imaged on plane 246 with each information-carrying wavelength focused at a specific spot on the plane. By properly placing detectors at plane 246, each WDM information channel may be detected for further processing.
  • FIG. 3 illustrates an example of an optical communications system in accordance with a preferred embodiment of the present invention.
  • This embodiment includes a transmitter 50 and a receiver 52.
  • a fiber 56 carrying an information- carrying optical signal is received by the OTDL 58.
  • the light is processed as described in the explanation for Figures 1 and 2.
  • the beamlets exit the OTDL from optical tap locations 54a to 54g and a lens system 60 interferes the beamlets onto a planar reflective phase modulator array 62. Passage through the OTDL 58 and lens 60 to the plane 62 has split the information-carrying optical signal into a number of sub-bands.
  • the OTDL can be designed to output at least hundreds of sub-bands.
  • the reflective phase modulator array 62 may be implemented in a number of ways, including, but not limited to, a liquid crystal array, a MEMS device, or an array of III-V or II- VI semiconductor devices.
  • the speed at which the phase shifting changes may directly affect the level of security afforded.
  • one modulator element is associated with each sub-band. As each sub-band passes through a modulator element, it is phase shifted in a manner determined by the control computer 64.
  • the mirror part of the modulator array 62 reflects the sub-bands back through lens system 60 to tap locations 57a to 57g.
  • the OTDL 58 recombines the taps into an optical signal for retransmission over a fiber optic carrier 76 to the destination.
  • the signal from transmitter 50 is received by OTDL 72 from fiber 76.
  • the OTDL 72 and lens 70 combination is identical to the OTDL 58 and lens 60 combination.
  • OTDL 72 and lens 70 separate the signal into the identical sub-bands created by OTDL 58 and lens 60.
  • the sub-bands are imaged onto the reflective phase modulator array 68, with each array element receiving the same sub-band as the corresponding modulator in array 62.
  • the control computer 66 causes each sub-band to be phase shifted in the opposite manner as instructed by control computer 64.
  • Each sub-band is then reflected back through lens system 70 to OTDL 72 which together recombine the sub-bands into a single signal that is output to fiber 74 for further processing or routing.
  • the effect of imparting a phase shift to each sub-band is to introduce distortion. If the amount of distortion is sufficient, the information content becomes undecipherable and security is enhanced.
  • the control computer 64 instructs the modulator array how to modify the phase of the sub-bands in a manner that is unpredictable to anyone not having knowledge of the computer input.
  • the rate at which the phase shifts are changed depends upon the level of security required.
  • a fixed phase shift pattern will sufficiently distort the signal to make it incomprehensible; however, determined interceptors can analyze the signal and eventually determine, and reverse the effects of, the phase shift pattern. To ensure continued security, the fixed phase shift pattern can be changed occasionally, requiring the potential interceptor to start the analysis over again.
  • phase shifter array settings 62 and 68 in Figure 3 are changed at least as fast as twice the time aperture required for an interceptor to compute the settings.
  • the computer input to the phase modulators may be derived from a deterministic algorithm, the starting point of which may be derived from a key setting provided to the computer. This permits a receiver having knowledge of both the algorithm and the key setting to reproduce the same control computer signal, and thereby, reverse the phase distortions and recover the information signal intact.
  • the sub-band resolution i.e., the spacing between each sub-band at focal plane 62 of the OTDL in Figure 3
  • the design of the OTDL should be at least 50 sub-bands with a spatial resolution at the focal plane of 200 MHz or finer.
  • Each array element may see a portion of the signal in the frequency domain, defined by the equation:
  • ⁇ ( ⁇ ,t) may be perceived as that spectral component of the information signal incident on an element of the reflective phase shifter.
  • the present invention imparts a phase shift to each spectral component hitting a specific array element. Specifically, each array element sees a signal defined as a complex number Ae ⁇
  • ⁇ is the entity to be altered by the phase shifter of the invention.
  • A amplitude
  • Figure 4 is a simulated example illustrating the transmission of the signal in Figure 3.
  • 57 is a representation of the original signal carried on fiber 56. After being phase shifted by transmitter 50, the transmitted and distorted signal appears as shown by 77. After passing through receiver 52, the signal is output on fiber 74 and appears as shown by 75, identical to the incoming original signal 57.
  • the embodiment illustrated in Figure 3 is a reflective architecture of the present invention that utilizes the reversibility property of an OTDL, whereby, only one OTDL device is used for transmitting and receiving.
  • An alternative embodiment of the present invention is a transmissive architecture illustrated in Figure 5 where two OTDL devices comprise the transmitter 200 and two OTDL devices comprise the receiver 210.
  • the phase shifter arrays 84 and 94 for this architecture are transmissive versus reflective.
  • OTDL 100 combines the distorted signal into a signal for transmission on fiber 90. This signal is received by OTDL 101 from fiber 90 and, together with lens 60, separates the signal into the identical sub- bands created by OTDL 99 and lens 61. These sub-bands are passed through the transmissive phase shifter 94 and to lens 87 and OTDL 102 for recombining as the original undistorted signal.
  • a signal delay could be created by a coil, white cell, loop in a waveguide, or other types of free space delay.
  • There are many methods to shift the frequency of an optical signal such as using stimulated Brillouin Scattering, four wave mixing, three wave mixing, or use of any optical modulator device, such as a lithium niobate Mach- Zender, indium phosphide electroabsorption, electroabsorption multi-quantum well or an electrorefraction device. Note that the values of the frequency shifts applied must meet other constraints in order to be feasible for the embodiment used.
  • Each of the three methods of signal distortion could be used independently or in any combination to produce a private or secure optical transmission system.
  • FIG. 6 shows an example of a reflective architecture in accordance with this method.
  • Figure 7 shows an example of a transmissive architecture in accordance with this method.
  • the OTDL may be a two- dimensional device, i.e., the OTDL may sub-channelize an optical signal from multiple fiber optic inputs shown as 230a through 23Of producing a matrix of sub- bands and input fibers at the focal plane.
  • Another method to obtain a higher level of security may be to use the previously described methods of distorting the sub-bands but also send the sub-bands out on differing outputs. '
  • a further enhancement in security may be obtained using an OTDL in the architecture described in U.S. patent 6,608,721 Bl (incorporated herein by reference) and shown in Figure 8, where OTDL 160 is rotated 90 degrees from the orientation of a first OTDL 150.
  • the first OTDL generates a coarse sub-banding.
  • the second OTDL further subdivides each sub-band into finer sub-bands.
  • This architecture creates a large number of very fine sub-bands of the incoming signal.
  • the distortion methods previously discussed could be applied to each of the sub- bands at location 170.
  • the very finely and distorted sub-bands could be recombined into a signal using the transmissive or reflective architecture disclosed previously for transmission to the destination.
  • a receiver architecture using the design in Figure 8 would separate the very fine sub-bands, reverse the distortion and recombine the undistorted sub-bands into a signal.

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Abstract

La présente invention concerne un procédé et un appareil de transmission sécurisée d'un signal optique contenant de l'information. On divise un signal optique en une première pluralité de sous-bandes dont chacune est modifiée pour crypter l'information contenue dans le signal optique. On combine les sous-bandes modifiées en un signal optique combiné. On divise ce signal en une seconde pluralité de sous-bande dont chacune est modifiée pour décrypter l'information préalablement cryptée contenue dans le signal optique.
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