All-optical fast random number generator

Optics Express

Volumn 18, Issue 19, 2010, Pages 20360-20369

  Li, Pu ^a   Wang, Yun Cai ^a   Zhang, Jian Zhong ^a  

^a TAIYUAN UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (China)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPARATORS (OPTICAL); NUMBER THEORY; STATISTICAL TESTS;

10-GBIT/S; ALL-OPTICAL; CHAOTIC LASERS; EXCLUSIVE-OR; HIGH-SPEED; RANDOM NUMBER GENERATORS; RANDOM NUMBERS; ULTRAWIDE BANDWIDTH;

RANDOM NUMBER GENERATION;

ARTICLE; EQUIPMENT; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; INSTRUMENTATION; LASER; MATHEMATICS; RANDOMIZATION; SIGNAL PROCESSING;

EQUIPMENT DESIGN; EQUIPMENT FAILURE ANALYSIS; LASERS; MATHEMATICS; RANDOM ALLOCATION; SIGNAL PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED;

EID: 77956985428     PISSN: None     EISSN: 10944087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OE.18.020360     Document Type: Article

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