Abstract—Chaos based communication has been a very attractive research field from last couple of decades due to its potential of providing secure communication. In this paper, we reviewed principles and theory governing the field of chaos. We studied governing principles and different methods for chaotic signal generation and schemes used to modulate message signal with chaotic signal in optical fiber communication systems. We also reviewed the principal concepts governing chaos synchronization, types of chaos synchronization and some proposed techniques used for the synchronization of transmitter and receiver in optical fiber communication systems.

Index Terms—Chaos, chaos communication, chaos generation, chaos masking, chaos modulation, chaos shift keying, chaos synchronization.

Kamran Rauf is with the School of Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences–National University of Science and Technology (SEECS – NUST),Pakistan.
Muhammad Yasir is with the Air University,Islamabad, Pakistan.

Cite: Kamran Rauf and Muhammad Yasir, "Chaos Based Optical Communication," International Journal of Computer and Communication Engineering vol. 2, no. 2, pp. 97-100 , 2013.