Sub-Tb/s physical random bit generators based on direct detection of amplified spontaneous emission signals

Journal of Lightwave Technology

Volumn 30, Issue 9, 2012, Pages 1329-1334

  Argyris, Apostolos ^a   Pikasis, Evangelos ^a   Deligiannidis, Stavros ^a   Syvridis, Dimitris ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ATHENS   (Greece)

Author keywords

Amplified spontaneous emission; erbium doped fiber amplifier; random numbers; semiconductor optical amplifier; signal processing

Indexed keywords

AMPLIFIED SPONTANEOUS EMISSION NOISE; AMPLIFIED SPONTANEOUS EMISSION SOURCE; AMPLIFIED SPONTANEOUS EMISSIONS; BEAT NOISE; BIT RATES; DIRECT DETECTION; DOPED FIBER AMPLIFIER; GENERATION RATE; OPTICAL INTENSITIES; PHOTORECEIVERS; POST PROCESSING; RANDOM BIT GENERATORS; RANDOM NUMBERS; ULTRA-BROADBAND;

ERBIUM; FIBER AMPLIFIERS; NUMBER THEORY; RANDOM NUMBER GENERATION; SEMICONDUCTOR OPTICAL AMPLIFIERS; SIGNAL PROCESSING;

SPONTANEOUS EMISSION;

EID: 84859721842     PISSN: 07338724     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/JLT.2012.2188377     Document Type: Article

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