Three-Dimensional Photon Counting Optical Encryption With Enhanced Visual Quality and Security Level
Jaehoon Lee, Myungjin Cho, Min‐Chul Lee · IEEE Access · 2021
In this paper, we propose three-dimensional (3D) photon counting double random phase encryption (DRPE) with enhanced visual quality and security level. Conventional 3D photon counting DRPE can encrypt the data quickly by using 4f optical system and random phase masks with enhanced the security because 3D photon counting technique is used. 3D photon counting DRPE extracts photons from the encrypted data by using statistical methods such as Poisson random process and the visual quality of the decrypted data can be enhanced through the 3D reconstruction process. However, it still has a problem to visualize the data when we extract extremely few photons. To improve the security and the visual quality of the decrypted data, we propose the random amplitude reconstruction process in the encryption stage. Our proposed method reconstructs the amplitude of the encrypted data at the random depth. Thus, the shifting pixel value and depth information can be another important key for decryption through the random process. Therefore, it can be effective in decrypting data securely and the visual quality of the decrypted data can be enhanced. Finally, Through the random reconstruction process in decryption process, our proposed method can enhance the security and visual quality simultaneously. To verify our proposed method, we carry out the simulation and optical experiment.