Abstract

Chaotic optical communication is of great significance for secure data transmission. Despite rapid development over the decades, high-speed (>100 Gbps) and long-distance (>100 km) chaotic optical communication in a single fiber is still full of challenges. Here, we propose and experimentally demonstrate high-speed and long-distance chaos-based secure optical communications using mutual injection of semiconductor lasers and space-division multiplexing (SDM) techniques. The encrypted signals are transmitted through all seven core channels of the multi-core fiber (MCF), which effectively expands the aggregate transmission capacity of a single fiber. A pair of source and synchronization devices based on mutual injection of semiconductor lasers are employed to effectively encrypt and decrypt signals. Chaos-based secure optical communications with 70-Gbps on-off keying (OOK) and 140-Gbps quadrature phase-shift keying (QPSK) signals over a 130-km MCF are successfully demonstrated in the experiment with favorable performance. The demonstration may pave the way for future ultrahigh capacity and ultra-long distance chaotic optical communications by fully exploiting multi-dimensional resources of light waves, including the spatial dimension.

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