Four-channels optical chaos secure communications with the rate of 400 Gb/s using optical reservoir computing based on two quantum dot spin-VCSELs

Abstract

In this work, we utilize four parallel reservoirs to model the chaotic dynamics of the output four polarization components (PCs) from a driving QD spin-VCSEL. Here, the four parallel reservoirs are implemented using the four PCs of a reservoir QD spin-VCSEL. High-quality chaos synchronizations of four pairs of PCs can be realized by using the four parallel reservoirs based on a reservoir QD spin-VCSEL. Under these high-quality synchronizations, we successfully implement four-channel secure communications with 4 × 100 Gb/s 16 QAM messages under guaranteeing. We further discuss the performances of the bit error ratios (BERs) for four decoding messages under different parameters. We show that all BERs via different parameters are less than 7 × 10−3, denoting that high-quality data-transmissions can be potentially obtained in the system. Moreover, we prove that our proposed multi-channel optical chaotic communication scheme has the same level of security as the traditional schemes. Our findings show that the delay-based optical reservoir computing based on a QD spin-VCSEL provides an effective method for realization of multi-channel optical secure communication.