Quantum random bit generation using stimulated Raman scattering

Optics Express

Volumn 19, Issue 25, 2011, Pages 25173-25180

  Bustard, Philip J ^a,b   Moffatt, Doug ^b   Lausten, Rune ^b   Wu, Guorong ^b   Walmsley, Ian A ^a   Sussman, Benjamin J ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

^b NATIONAL RESEARCH COUNCIL CANADA   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

NUMBER THEORY; PARTICLE BEAMS; PHASE MEASUREMENT; QUANTUM NOISE; SIGNAL TO NOISE RATIO; STIMULATED RAMAN SCATTERING;

CRITICAL RESOURCES; HIGH SIGNAL-TO-NOISE RATIO; NOISE AMPLIFICATION; QUANTUM EVOLUTION; QUANTUM RANDOM NUMBER GENERATORS; RANDOM BIT GENERATIONS; SENSITIVE DEVICES; VACUUM FLUCTUATIONS;

RANDOM NUMBER GENERATION;

ARTICLE; COMPUTER AIDED DESIGN; COMPUTER SIMULATION; EQUIPMENT; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; INSTRUMENTATION; LIGHT; MATHEMATICS; OPTICAL INSTRUMENTATION; QUANTUM THEORY; RADIATION SCATTERING; RAMAN SPECTROMETRY; RANDOMIZATION; SIGNAL PROCESSING; THEORETICAL MODEL;

COMPUTER SIMULATION; COMPUTER-AIDED DESIGN; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; EQUIPMENT FAILURE ANALYSIS; LIGHT; MATHEMATICS; MODELS, THEORETICAL; OPTICAL DEVICES; QUANTUM THEORY; RANDOM ALLOCATION; SCATTERING, RADIATION; SIGNAL PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; SPECTRUM ANALYSIS, RAMAN;

EID: 82955208417     PISSN: None     EISSN: 10944087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OE.19.025173     Document Type: Article

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