optical

This letter presents a novel approach to bolster the physical layer security of optical communication systems, specifically within Passive Optical Networks (PONs), through the utilization of device fingerprints. In this proposed scheme, we employ Optical On-Off Keying (OOK) modulation for signal transmission and subsequently extract distinct fingerprint features from the eye diagrams of these OOK signals. These fingerprint features are then subjected to dimensionality reduction via Siamese neural networks.