Fig. 1: Jamming attack.

a Alice (blue) is transmitting to Bob (green) through a line-of-sight communication link, while Mallory (red) disrupts the data streaming by aiming at Bob’s receiver, targeting one of his side lobes. b Schematic of the experimental setup, see “Methods” for details. BERT bit-error rate tester. DBL Mixer double balanced mixer. DFB distributed feedback laser. EOM electro-optic modulator. EDFA erbium-doped fiber amplifier. PPG pulse pattern generator. RF OSC RF Oscillator.