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Ultra-secure optical encryption based on tightly focused perfect optical vortex beams.

Qingshuai Yang¹, Zijian Xie¹, Mengrui Zhang¹

¹Guangdong Provincial Key Laboratory of Optical Fiber Sensing and Communications, Institute of Photonics Technology, Jinan University, Guangzhou, 510632, China.

Nanophotonics (Berlin, Germany)

|December 5, 2024

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This study introduces ultra-secure image encryption using perfect optical vortex (POV) beams. By controlling light

Keywords:

encryption gold nanorod orbital angular momentum perfect optical vertex

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Area of Science:

Optics and Photonics
Nanotechnology
Information Security

Background:

Orbital angular momentum (OAM) offers potential for optical encryption due to mode orthogonality.
Challenges exist in controlling annular intensity profiles of OAM beams for nanoscale applications.

Purpose of the Study:

To demonstrate ultra-secure image encryption using perfect optical vortex (POV) beams.
To develop a method for generating radius-controllable POV beams with tunable OAM states.

Main Methods:

Generation of radius-controllable POV beams via a single spatial light modulator performing Fourier transform of a Bessel mode.
Application of focused POV beams to gold nanorod aggregates for selective excitation of electromagnetic hot spots.
Encoding information through photothermal deformation triggered by light-matter interactions.

Main Results:

Successful generation of POV beams with controllable annular intensity profiles and OAM states.
Selective excitation of electromagnetic hot spots in gold nanorod aggregates using focused POV beams.
Demonstration of ultra-secure image encryption by encoding information in OAM states and polarizations.

Conclusions:

Achieved ultra-secure image encryption by combining OAM states of POV beams and polarization.
Laid the groundwork for nanophotonic applications utilizing OAM division of POV beams.