Optical Image Encryption System Using Several Tilted Planes
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Grupo de Investigación en Física del Estado Sólido (GIFES), Faculty of Basic and Applied Sciences, Universidad de La Guajira, Riohacha (La Guajira) 440007, Colombia
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Grupo de óptica e informática, Department of electronic engineering, Universidad Popular del Cesar, Valledupar (Cesar) 200001, Colombia
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Photonics 2019, 6(4), 116; https://doi.org/10.3390/photonics6040116
Received: 25 September 2019 / Revised: 25 October 2019 / Accepted: 28 October 2019 / Published: 7 November 2019
(This article belongs to the Special Issue Advances on Applications of Optics and Photonics – Selected Papers from the 4th International Conference on Applications of Optics and Photonics, AOP2019)
A well-known technique for optical image encryption is the double random phase encoding (DRPE) technique, which uses two random phase masks (RPMs), one RPM at the input plane of the encryption system and the other RPM at the Fourier plane of the optical system, in order to obtain the encrypted image. In this work, we propose to use tilted planes for the Fourier and the output planes of the optical DRPE encryption system with the purpose of adding two new security keys, which are the angles of the tilted planes. The optical diffraction on a tilted plane is computed using the angular spectrum of plane waves and the coordinate rotation in the Fourier domain. The tilted distributions at the intermediate and output planes of the optical DRPE encryption system are the second RPM and the encrypted image, respectively. The angles of the tilted planes allow improvement to the security of the encrypted image. We perform several numerical simulations with the purpose of demonstrating the validity and feasibility of the proposed image encryption system.
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Vilardy O., J.M.; Jimenez, C.J.; Torres M., C.O. Optical Image Encryption System Using Several Tilted Planes. Photonics 2019, 6, 116.
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