Fast random bits generation based on a single chaotic semiconductor ring laser

Optics Express

Volumn 20, Issue 27, 2012, Pages 28603-28613

  Nguimdo, Romain Modeste ^a   Verschaffelt, Guy ^a   Danckaert, Jan ^a   Leijtens, Xaveer ^b   Bolk, Jeroen ^b   Van Der Sande, Guy ^a  

^a VRIJE UNIVERSITEIT BRUSSEL   (Belgium)

^b EINDHOVEN UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

RANDOM PROCESSES; RING LASERS; SAMPLING;

40-GBIT/S; ANALOG-DIGITAL CONVERTER; BIT RATES; CHAOTIC OUTPUTS; CIRCULAR SYMMETRY; COUNTERPROPAGATING; EXCLUSIVE-OR; FABRY PEROT LASERS; LEAST SIGNIFICANT BITS; MOST SIGNIFICANT BIT; OUTPUT SIGNAL; POSTPROCESSING METHODS; RANDOM BITS; RANDOMNESS TEST; SEMICONDUCTOR RING LASERS;

SEMICONDUCTOR DEVICES;

ARTICLE; COMPUTER NETWORK; DIODE LASER; EQUIPMENT; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; EQUIPMENT FAILURE; INTERFEROMETRY; SIGNAL PROCESSING; TELECOMMUNICATION;

COMPUTER COMMUNICATION NETWORKS; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; EQUIPMENT FAILURE ANALYSIS; INTERFEROMETRY; LASERS, SEMICONDUCTOR; SIGNAL PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; TELECOMMUNICATIONS;

EID: 84872044848     PISSN: None     EISSN: 10944087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OE.20.028603     Document Type: Article

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