Ultrafast quantum random number generation based on quantum phase fluctuations

Optics Express

Volumn 20, Issue 11, 2012, Pages 12366-12377

  Xu, Feihu ^a   Qi, Bing ^a   Ma, Xiongfeng ^a,b   Xu, He ^a   Zheng, Haoxuan ^a,c   Lo, Hoi Kwong ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

^b TSINGHUA UNIVERSITY   (China)

^c MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FERMI LEVEL; INFORMATION THEORY; QUANTUM THEORY; RANDOM PROCESSES;

EXPERIMENTAL SETUP; HIGH-SPEED; MIN-ENTROPY; PARTIAL KNOWLEDGE; QUANTUM PHASE FLUCTUATIONS; QUANTUM RANDOMNESS; RANDOM NUMBER GENERATORS; RANDOMNESS EXTRACTORS; SINGLE PHOTON DETECTION; ULTRA-FAST;

RANDOM NUMBER GENERATION;

ARTICLE; LASER; MATHEMATICS; QUANTUM THEORY; RANDOMIZATION;

LASERS; MATHEMATICS; QUANTUM THEORY; RANDOM ALLOCATION;

EID: 84861525729     PISSN: None     EISSN: 10944087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OE.20.012366     Document Type: Article

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