Twin prime difference set and its application on a coded mask

Abstract

Difference sets have wide applications in constructing sequences and codes in engineering and cryptography, and in imaging with coded masks in astronomical events and in medical events. In this paper, the relation between difference sets and binary sequences is presented and a coded mask as an application of difference sets is given. First of all, an algorithm for an appropriate difference set is written in C++ by using twin primes and then a coded mask for imaging astronomical events is designed with the aid of this algorithm.