A robust random number generator based on differential comparison of chaotic laser signals

Optics Express

Volumn 20, Issue 7, 2012, Pages 7496-7506

  Zhang, Jianzhong ^a,b   Wang, Yuncai ^a,b   Liu, Ming ^a   Xue, Lugang ^a   Li, Pu ^a   Wang, Anbang ^a,b   Zhang, Mingjiang ^a,b  

^a TAIYUAN UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (China)

^b XI AN INSTITUTE OF OPTICS AND PRECISION MECHANICS   (China)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

OPTICAL CONSTANTS; OPTICS;

ANALOG TO DIGITAL CONVERTERS; CHAOTIC LASERS; CHAOTIC SIGNAL; COMPARISON METHODS; EXTERNAL PERTURBATIONS; PROBABILITY DENSITY DISTRIBUTION; RANDOM NUMBER GENERATORS; RANDOM NUMBERS; RANDOM SEQUENCE;

RANDOM NUMBER GENERATION;

ARTICLE; EQUIPMENT; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; LASER; NONLINEAR SYSTEM; RANDOMIZATION;

EQUIPMENT DESIGN; EQUIPMENT FAILURE ANALYSIS; LASERS; NONLINEAR DYNAMICS; RANDOM ALLOCATION;

EID: 84859377410     PISSN: None     EISSN: 10944087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OE.20.007496     Document Type: Article

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