title: Image encryption using polarized light encoding and amplitude and phase truncation in the Fresnel domain.
abstract: In this paper, an image encryption scheme based on polarized light encoding and a phase-truncation approach in the Fresnel transform domain is proposed. The phase-truncated data obtained by an asymmetric cryptosystem is encrypted and decrypted by using the concept of the Stokes-Mueller formalism. Image encryption based on polarization of light using Stokes-Mueller formalism has the main advantage over Jones vector formalism that it manipulates only intensity information, which is measurable. Thus any intensity information can be encrypted and decrypted using this scheme. The proposed method offers several advantages: (1) a lens-free setup, (2) flexibility in the encryption key design, (3) use of asymmetric keys, and (4) immunity against special attack. We present numerical simulation results for gray-scale and color images in support of the proposed security scheme. The performance measurement parameters relative error and correlation coefficient have been calculated to check the effectiveness of the scheme.
authors.affiliation: Department of Physics, Indian Institute of Technology Patna Patliputra, Patna, India.
authors.forename: Sudheesh K
authors.initials: SK
authors.lastname: Rajput
authors.forename: Naveen K
authors.initials: NK
authors.lastname: Nishchal