Bias-free true random-number generator

Optics Letters

Volumn 34, Issue 12, 2009, Pages 1876-1878

  Wei, Wei ^a   Guo, Hong ^a  

^a PEKING UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

NUMBER THEORY; PARTICLE BEAMS; PHOTONS; RANDOM PROCESSES;

CORRECTION METHOD; MUTUALLY INDEPENDENTS; NEW APPROACHES; PHOTON NUMBERS; PHOTON STATISTICS; RANDOM BIT GENERATIONS; SINGLE PHOTON DETECTION; TRUE RANDOMS;

RANDOM NUMBER GENERATION;

EID: 67649386879     PISSN: 01469592     EISSN: 15394794     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OL.34.001876     Document Type: Article

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