Photon arrival time quantum random number generation

Journal of Modern Optics

Volumn 56, Issue 4, 2009, Pages 516-522

  Wayne, Michael A ^a   Jeffrey, Evan R ^a   Akselrod, Gleb M ^a   Kwiat, Paul G ^a  

^a University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign   (United States)

Author keywords

Photon counting; Quantum cryptography; Quantum random number generation

Indexed keywords

COST-EFFICIENT; FPGA-BASED DATA PROCESSING; PHOTON ARRIVAL; PHOTON COUNTING; PHOTON EMISSIONS; POISSONIAN STATISTICS; QUANTUM RANDOM NUMBER GENERATION; RANDOM BITS; RANDOM NUMBER GENERATORS; SINGLE-PHOTON COUNTERS;

DATA PROCESSING; LIGHT; LIGHT SOURCES; NUMBER THEORY; PHOTONS; QUANTUM CRYPTOGRAPHY;

RANDOM NUMBER GENERATION;

EID: 67651146510     PISSN: 09500340     EISSN: 13623044     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/09500340802553244     Document Type: Article

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