Optomechanical crystals to enable chaos-based secure data communications
(PHYSorg.com Physics)

Researchers from ICN2`s Phononic and Photonic Nanostructures (P2N) Group at the UAB campus have published a study in which the complex dynamics, including chaos, of optical nonlinearities, are controlled by using optomechanical crystals and changing the parameters of the excitation laser. This discovery might allow the codification of information by introducing chaos into the signal.