Implementation of 140 Gb/s true random bit generator based on a chaotic photonic integrated circuit

Optics Express

Volumn 18, Issue 18, 2010, Pages 18763-18768

  Argyris, Apostolos ^a   Deligiannidis, Stavros ^a   Pikasis, Evangelos ^a   Bogris, Adonis ^a   Syvridis, Dimitris ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ATHENS   (Greece)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DISTRIBUTED FEEDBACK LASERS; INTEGRATED CIRCUITS; MONOLITHIC INTEGRATED CIRCUITS; NUMBER THEORY; OPTICAL CORRELATION;

BIT RATES; BIT STREAM; BROADBAND SPECTRA; CHAOTIC DYNAMICS; CHAOTIC SIGNAL; CORRELATION TECHNIQUES; DFB LASER; EXTERNAL CAVITY; EXTERNAL CAVITY MODES; MOST SIGNIFICANT BIT; OPERATING CONDITION; PHOTONIC INTEGRATED CIRCUITS; POST PROCESSING; RANDOM BIT GENERATORS; SHORT LENGTHS; ULTRA-FAST;

FEEDBACK;

EID: 77956384830     PISSN: None     EISSN: 10944087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OE.18.018763     Document Type: Article

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