Secure orthogonal frequency multiplexed optical communications

A system for secure data transmission via optical link, comprising:

• an optical transmitter for orthogonal frequency division multiplexed (OFDM) communications, wherein each channel carrier has multiple subcarriers, each subcarrier being individually encoded with data and a data encoding format is different for different subcarriers;
• the transmitter is sending data to an optical receiver;
• an output electrical signal from the optical receiver is processed in a digital signal processing (DSP) unit to recover data from each subcarrier, wherein the optical receiver configured to receive an encoded OFDM signal and to mix it with a signal from a local oscillator, and wherein the optical carrier changes its polarization state according to a sequence of polarization change keys, and the local oscillator has a polarization state corresponding to the polarization state of the incoming carrier.

A system for secure data transmission via optical link, comprising:

• an optical transmitter for orthogonal frequency division multiplexed (OFDM) communications, wherein each channel carrier has multiple subcarriers, each subcarrier being individually encoded with data and a data encoding format is different for different subcarriers;
• the transmitter is sending data to an optical receiver;
• an output electrical signal from the optical receiver is processed in a digital signal processing (DSP) unit to recover data from each subcarrier, wherein the optical receiver configured to receive an encoded OFDM signal and to mix it with a signal from a local oscillator, further comprising means for changing the carrier wavelength according to a sequence of wavelength change keys, and the local oscillator has a wavelength corresponding to the wavelength of the incoming carrier.