Abstract

An optical frequency comb (OFC)-assisted covert wireless communication system with multiple access and enhanced capacity is proposed and experimentally demonstrated. In the scheme, signals in multiple channels are spread and mixed together to use a single transmitter and then received by individual receivers according to multiple access channels. The mixed signal is highly contaminated by noise to achieve high concealment in both the time and frequency domains, and then effectively recovered as different channels using the OFC assisted analog deep denoising technique. In experiments, mixed signals of 16 access channels with a signal-to-noise ratio (SNR) from −18 to −5 dB are accommodated, showing high covertness and 16× capacity enhancement (16×10 Mbit/s). Mutual interference among different channels is also analyzed and greatly eliminated by phases optimization in the spectral-spreading process. This scheme can greatly improve the time and spectrum utilization efficiency, which will be of great significance for enabling multiple access, large capacity, and high security for wireless communications.

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