High-speed and bias-free optical random number generator

IEEE Photonics Technology Letters

Volumn 24, Issue 6, 2012, Pages 437-439

  Wei, Wei ^a   Xie, Guodong ^a   Dang, Anhong ^a   Guo, Hong ^a  

^a PEKING UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

Optical random number generator; randomness extraction; superluminescent light emitting diode (SLED)

Indexed keywords

BIT EXTRACTION; ENTROPY SOURCES; EXPERIMENTAL SETUP; HIGH-SPEED; INTRINSIC RANDOMNESS; MUTUALLY INDEPENDENTS; RANDOM BITS; RANDOM NUMBER GENERATORS; SECURE COMMUNICATIONS;

LIGHT EMITTING DIODES; OPTICAL COMMUNICATION; QUANTUM CRYPTOGRAPHY; RANDOM PROCESSES;

RANDOM NUMBER GENERATION;

EID: 84857498906     PISSN: 10411135     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/LPT.2011.2180521     Document Type: Article

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