Self-balanced real-time photonic scheme for ultrafast random number generation

We propose a real-time self-balanced photonic method for extracting ultrafast random numbers from broadband randomness sources. In place of electronic analog-to-digital converters (ADCs), the balanced photo-detection technology is used to directly quantize optically sampled chaotic pulses into a con...

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Main Authors: Pu Li, Ya Guo, Yanqiang Guo, Yuanlong Fan, Xiaomin Guo, Xianglian Liu, K. Alan Shore, Elena Dubrova, Bingjie Xu, Yuncai Wang, Anbang Wang
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: AIP Publishing LLC 2018-06-01
Series:APL Photonics
Online Access:http://dx.doi.org/10.1063/1.5029498