Secure fiber optic seals enabled by quantum optical communication concepts

Sarovar, Mohan; Farley, David; Soh, Daniel B. S.; Camacho, Ryan; Brif, Constantin

Title: Secure fiber optic seals enabled by quantum optical communication concepts

Patent · Tue Jul 02 00:00:00 EDT 2019

OSTI ID:1568559

Sarovar, Mohan; Farley, David; Soh, Daniel B. S.; Camacho, Ryan; Brif, Constantin

Described herein are various technologies pertaining to detecting tampering of a seal based upon quantum optical communication via a communications channel comprising the seal. A plurality of pulses of light encoded with random data are transmitted on the communications channel, whereupon they are received and their data values measured. The measured data values of the pulses are then compared to the known transmitted data to determine a correlation statistic between the transmitted and received data values. Tampering with the seal can be detected based upon identifying that the correlation statistic has dropped below a threshold non-tampered level of correlation between transmitted and received values.

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Research Organization:: Sandia National Lab. (SNL-NM), Albuquerque, NM (United States)

Sponsoring Organization:: USDOE

DOE Contract Number:: AC04-94AL85000

Assignee:: National Technology & Engineering Solutions of Sandia, LLC (Albuquerque, NM)

Patent Number(s):: 10,341,015

Application Number:: 15/279,706

OSTI ID:: 1568559

Resource Relation:: Patent File Date: 09/29/2016

Country of Publication:: United States

Language:: English

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