All-optical quantum random bit generation from intrinsically binary phase of parametric oscillators

Optics Express

Volumn 20, Issue 17, 2012, Pages 19322-19330

  Marandi, Alireza ^a   Leindecker, Nick C ^a   Vodopyanov, Konstantin L ^a   Byer, Robert L ^a  

^a STANFORD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

PARAMETRIC OSCILLATORS; RANDOM NUMBER GENERATION;

BINARY PHASE; CLASSICAL NOISE; DEGENERATE OPTICAL PARAMETRIC OSCILLATORS; HIGH-SPEED; NANO SCALE; ON CHIPS; PHOTO DETECTION; POST PROCESSING; RANDOM NUMBER GENERATORS; SPONTANEOUS PARAMETRIC DOWN CONVERSION;

QUANTUM THEORY;

AMPLIFIER; ARTICLE; COMPUTER AIDED DESIGN; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; EQUIPMENT FAILURE ANALYSIS; INSTRUMENTATION; LASER; OSCILLOMETRY; RANDOMIZATION; SIGNAL PROCESSING;

AMPLIFIERS, ELECTRONIC; COMPUTER-AIDED DESIGN; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; EQUIPMENT FAILURE ANALYSIS; LASERS; OSCILLOMETRY; RANDOM ALLOCATION; SIGNAL PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED;

EID: 84865594491     PISSN: None     EISSN: 10944087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OE.20.019322     Document Type: Article

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