Security-enhanced asymmetric optical cryptosystem based on coherent superposition and equal modulus decomposition

Abstract

We propose a security-enhanced asymmetric optical cryptosystem based on coherent superposition and equal modulus decomposition by combining full phase encryption technique with our previous cryptosystem. In the encryption process, the original image is phase encoded rather than bonded with a RPM. In the decryption process, two phase-contrast filters (PCFs) are employed to obtain the plaintext. As a consequence, the new cryptosystem guarantees high-level security to the attack based on iterative Fourier transform and maintains the good performance of our previous cryptosystem, especially conveniences. Some numerical simulations are presented to verify the validity and the performance of the modified cryptosystem.