<p>In this paper, we suggest a new magneto-optical nonlinear image encryption scheme that incorporates hybrid chaotic maps and a Modified Fresnel Transform (MFT) to be able to provide high security level and efficiency of optical information protection. Nonlinear magneto-optical modulation is the simultaneous encoding of multiple images, which allows providing a higher multiplexing rate and reduced optical interception vulnerability. It uses a hybrid chaotic system that is based on the merits of logistic and Lorenz maps to create very sensitive and unpredictable key streams to use in pixel-level scrambling and diffusion. The MFT presents another parameter space of adaptive transform parameters, which greatly increases the key space and protection against brute-force and statistical attacks. This proposed system enables the use of parallel encryption in the Fresnel domain, and still maintains a lightweight level of computation complexity, which is appropriate in a secure imaging application in real time. Comprehensive simulations and comparative vulnerability tests, such as key sensitivity, histogram uniformity, reduction in correlation, entropy betterment, noise/cropping strength examinations, demonstrate that the created cryptosystem displays better results with respect to current single image and linear optical encryption algorithms. Therefore, the given magneto-optical nonlinear hybrid chaotic encryption model delivers a strong and scalable model in the next generation secure image transmission and multi-modal data protection.</p>