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    Area of Science:

    • Optical Communications
    • Information Security
    • Wireless Networks

    Background:

    • Free-space optical (FSO) communication is a promising technology for high-bandwidth data transmission.
    • Ensuring secure data transmission in FSO links, especially against eavesdropping, is critical.
    • Existing security measures often focus on upper-layer protocols, leaving physical-layer vulnerabilities.

    Purpose of the Study:

    • To experimentally evaluate physical-layer (PHY) security in an eye-safe wavelength FSO link.
    • To quantify information-theoretic security metrics like secrecy rate and outage probability.
    • To propose a hybrid security architecture combining PHY and algorithmic security for FSO systems.

    Main Methods:

    • Experimental setup with one sender and two receivers (legitimate and eavesdropper).
    • Emulation of satellite-to-ground laser communication scenarios.
    • Estimation of secrecy rate, secrecy outage probability, and code lengths based on channel statistics.

    Main Results:

    • Experimental data on message transmission security in an FSO link was collected.
    • Information-theoretic security metrics were estimated under realistic fading conditions.
    • The feasibility of achieving secure communication through PHY security was demonstrated.

    Conclusions:

    • Physical-layer security is a viable approach for securing free-space optical communications.
    • A multi-layer security architecture combining PHY and upper-layer security offers enhanced protection.
    • The findings provide guidelines for designing secure FSO communication systems.