Low-bias high-speed quantum random number generator via shaped optical pulses

Optics Express

Volumn 18, Issue 9, 2010, Pages 9351-9357

  Wayne, Michael A ^a   Kwiat, Paul G ^a  

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

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

NUMBER THEORY; PHOTONS; QUANTUM CRYPTOGRAPHY;

HIGH-SPEED; LASER DIODES; OPTICAL PULSE; PHOTON ARRIVAL; PHOTON FLUX; POST PROCESSING; RANDOM NUMBER GENERATORS; TIME INTERVAL; WAITING TIME DISTRIBUTIONS;

RANDOM NUMBER GENERATION;

EID: 77952020607     PISSN: None     EISSN: 10944087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OE.18.009351     Document Type: Article

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