Direct generation of all-optical random numbers from optical pulse amplitude chaos

Optics Express

Volumn 20, Issue 4, 2012, Pages 4297-4308

  Li, Pu ^a   Wang, Yun Cai ^a   Wang, An Bang ^a   Yang, Ling Zhen ^a   Zhang, Ming Jiang ^a   Zhang, Jian Zhong ^a  

^a TAIYUAN UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (China)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

PULSE AMPLITUDE MODULATION; RING LASERS; STATISTICAL TESTS;

ALL-OPTICAL; CHAOTIC PULSE; DIRECT GENERATION; FIBER-RING LASERS; HIGH QUALITY; MODE-LOCKED; MODE-LOCKED LASER; OPTICAL PULSE; POST PROCESSING; PULSE AMPLITUDE; PUMP INTENSITIES; QUASI-PERIODIC; RANDOM NUMBERS; REPETITION FREQUENCY; SAMPLING PROCEDURES; SYMMETRIC DISTRIBUTIONS;

RANDOM NUMBER GENERATION;

EID: 84863116539     PISSN: None     EISSN: 10944087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OE.20.004297     Document Type: Article

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