Delay line length selection in generating fast random numbers with a chaotic laser

Applied Optics

Volumn 51, Issue 11, 2012, Pages 1709-1714

  Zhang, Jianzhong ^a   Wang, Yuncai ^a   Xue, Lugang ^a   Hou, Jiayin ^a   Zhang, Beibei ^a   Wang, Anbang ^a   Zhang, Mingjiang ^a  

^a TAIYUAN UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (China)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AUTOCORRELATION; SEMICONDUCTOR LASERS; TIME DELAY;

AUTOCORRELATION FUNCTIONS; CORRELATION COEFFICIENT; EXCLUSIVE OR OPERATION; EXTERNAL CAVITY; EXTERNAL CAVITY SEMICONDUCTOR LASERS; RANDOM SEQUENCE; ROUND-TRIP TIME; THRESHOLD-VALUE;

RANDOM NUMBER GENERATION;

EID: 84859586402     PISSN: 1559128X     EISSN: 15394522     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/AO.51.001709     Document Type: Article

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