Fast physical random bit generation with chaotic semiconductor lasers

Nature Photonics

Volumn 2, Issue 12, 2008, Pages 728-732

  Uchida, Atsushi ^a,b   Amano, Kazuya ^a   Inoue, Masaki ^a   Hirano, Kunihito ^a   Naito, Sunao ^a   Someya, Hiroyuki ^a   Oowada, Isao ^a   Kurashige, Takayuki ^a   Shiki, Masaru ^a   Yoshimori, Shigeru ^a   Yoshimura, Kazuyuki ^c   Davis, Peter ^c  

^a TAKUSHOKU UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b SAITAMA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^c NTT Communication Science Laboratories   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CHAOTIC SEMICONDUCTOR LASERS; DIGITAL INFORMATION SYSTEMS; ENTROPY SOURCES; GENERATION RATE; PSEUDORANDOM SEQUENCES; RANDOM BIT GENERATIONS; RANDOM BIT GENERATORS; RANDOM NUMBER GENERATORS;

ENTROPY; NUMBER THEORY; RANDOM NUMBER GENERATION; RANDOM PROCESSES;

SEMICONDUCTOR LASERS;

EID: 57049121354     PISSN: 17494885     EISSN: 17494893     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nphoton.2008.227     Document Type: Article

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