Role of phase keys in the double random phase encoding technique: an error analysis

Abstract

We perform a numerical analysis of the double random phase encryption-decryption technique to determine how, in the case of both amplitude and phase encoding, the two decryption keys (the image- and Fourier-plane keys) affect the output gray-scale image when they are in error. We perform perfect encryption and imperfect decryption. We introduce errors into the decrypting keys that correspond to the use of random distributions of incorrect pixel values. We quantify the effects that increasing amounts of error in the image-plane key, the Fourier-plane key, and both keys simultaneously have on the decrypted image. Quantization effects are also examined.

Keywords: 000.4430 General : Numerical approximation and analysis, 070.2580 Fourier optics and signal processing : Paraxial wave optics, 100.2000 Image processing : Digital image processing, 200.4740 Optics in computing : Optical processing.

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