High speed optical quantum random number generation

Optics Express

Volumn 18, Issue 12, 2010, Pages 13029-13037

  Fürst, Martin ^a,b   Weier, Henning ^a,b   Nauerth, Sebastian ^a   Marangon, Davide G ^a   Kurtsiefer, Christian ^c   Weinfurter, Harald ^a,d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MUNICH   (Germany)

^b QUTOOLS GMBH   (Germany)

^c NATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF SINGAPORE   (Singapore)

^d MAX PLANCK INSTITUT FÜR QUANTENOPTIK   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

NUMBER THEORY; PHOTOMULTIPLIERS; STOCHASTIC MODELS;

DEADTIME; FULLY INTEGRATED; PHOTOMULTIPLIER TUBE; RANDOM NUMBER GENERATORS; RANDOM NUMBERS; SINGLE PHOTONS;

RANDOM NUMBER GENERATION;

EID: 77953607020     PISSN: None     EISSN: 10944087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OE.18.013029     Document Type: Article

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