Quantum Noise Secured Terahertz CommunicationsShow others and affiliations
2023 (English)In: IEEE Journal of Selected Topics in Quantum Electronics, ISSN 1077-260X, E-ISSN 1558-4542, Vol. 29, no 5, article id 8400110Article in journal (Refereed) Published
Abstract [en]
The terahertz communications display an important role in high-speed wireless communications, the security threat from the eavesdroppers in the terahertz communications has been gaining attention recently. The true randomness in the physical layer can ensure one-time-pad encryption for secured terahertz communications, however, physical layer security schemes like the quantum key distribution methods suffer from device imperfections that limit the desirable signal rate and link distance. Herein, we present the quantum noise secured terahertz wireless communications with photonic terahertz signal generation schemes. With the high-order diffusion algorithms, the signal is masked by the quantum noise ciphers to the eavesdroppers and cannot be detected because the inevitable randomness by quantum noise measurement will cause physical measurement errors. In the experiment, we demonstrate 16 Gbits-1 quantum noise secured terahertz wireless communications with the conventional optical communication realms and devices, operating at 300 GHz terahertz frequency. This quantum noise secured terahertz communication approach is a significant step toward high-security wireless communications.
Place, publisher, year, edition, pages
Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc. , 2023. Vol. 29, no 5, article id 8400110
Keywords [en]
Communication system security, communication system signaling, optical communication, optical signal processing, quantum theory, terahertz radiation, Adaptive optics, Network layers, Network security, Quantum cryptography, Quantum noise, Random processes, Transmitters, Cipher, High speed optical techniques, Optical mixing, Optical noise, Optical signal-processing, Tera Hertz, Wireless communications
National Category
Communication Systems
Identifiers
URN: urn:nbn:se:ri:diva-61360DOI: 10.1109/JSTQE.2022.3218848Scopus ID: 2-s2.0-85141644790OAI: oai:DiVA.org:ri-61360DiVA, id: diva2:1717748
Note
This work was supported in part by the National Key Researchand Development Program of China under Grant 2020YFB1805700, in partby the Natural National Science Foundation of China under Grant 62101483,in part by the Natural Science Foundation of Zhejiang Province under GrantLQ21F010015, in part by Zhejiang Lab under Grant 2020LC0AD01, and inpart by the Huawei Technologies, Vetenskapsrådet under Grant 2019-05197.
2022-12-092022-12-092025-09-23Bibliographically approved