Experimental opto-digital synthesis of encrypted sub-samples of an image to improve its decoded quality

Abstract We develop an experimental protocol to visualize decrypted images that otherwise would have been barely recognizable, while keeping the standard security levels. This image deterioration is partly due to the natural speckle noise as well as the practical limitations arising from the optical elements composing the setup. This protocol is based on an optical image synthesis with digital holography using enlarged sub-samples of an entire image together with a multiplexing technique. We implement the process using a Mach-Zehnder interferometer with a joint transform correlator encrypting architecture. As a result, we get smaller speckle patterns on the final assembled image and a spatial frequency enhancement with respect to the decoded image obtained with the conventional procedures.

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