Photonic Physical Unclonable Function Based on Symmetric Microring Resonator Arrays

Paul Jimenez (1) , Raphael Cardoso (1) , Mauricio Gomes de Queiroz , Mohab Abdalla (1, 2) , Clément Zrounba (1) , Fabio Pavanello (3) , Xavier Letartre (3) , Cédric Marchand (4) , Ulrich Ruhrmair (5)

1 INL - CSH - INL - Conception de Systèmes Hétérogènes
2 RMIT University - Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology University
3 INL - I-Lum - INL - Ingénierie et conversion de lumière (i-Lum)
4 Lab-STICC_CODES - Equipe CODES
5 LMU - Fakultät für Physik - Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität [München/Munich]

We propose a novel architecture for a photonic Physical Unclonable Function (PUF) based on microring arrays. We demonstrate its uniqueness, verify its random behavior on standard benchmarks, and investigate the impact of the digitization threshold.

Keywords: physical unclonable functions; security; photonics

Domains: Cryptography and Security [cs.CR]; Physics [physics]; Optics / Photonic

Paul Jimenez, Raphael Cardoso, Mauricio Gomes de Queiroz, Mohab Abdalla, Clément Zrounba, et al.. Photonic Physical Unclonable Function Based on Symmetric Microring Resonator Arrays. Frontiers In Optics (FIO), Optica, Oct 2023, Tacoma (Washington), France. ⟨10.5281/zenodo.8436663⟩. ⟨hal-04294886⟩