Ó Dúill, S.; Rodriguez, L.; Alvarez-Outerelo, D.; Diaz-Otero, F.J.; Sharma, A.; Smyth, F.; Barry, L.P. Operation of an Electrical-Only-Contact Photonic Integrated Chip for Quantum Random Number Generation Using Laser Gain-Switching. Optics2023, 4, 551-562.
Ó Dúill, S.; Rodriguez, L.; Alvarez-Outerelo, D.; Diaz-Otero, F.J.; Sharma, A.; Smyth, F.; Barry, L.P. Operation of an Electrical-Only-Contact Photonic Integrated Chip for Quantum Random Number Generation Using Laser Gain-Switching. Optics 2023, 4, 551-562.
Ó Dúill, S.; Rodriguez, L.; Alvarez-Outerelo, D.; Diaz-Otero, F.J.; Sharma, A.; Smyth, F.; Barry, L.P. Operation of an Electrical-Only-Contact Photonic Integrated Chip for Quantum Random Number Generation Using Laser Gain-Switching. Optics2023, 4, 551-562.
Ó Dúill, S.; Rodriguez, L.; Alvarez-Outerelo, D.; Diaz-Otero, F.J.; Sharma, A.; Smyth, F.; Barry, L.P. Operation of an Electrical-Only-Contact Photonic Integrated Chip for Quantum Random Number Generation Using Laser Gain-Switching. Optics 2023, 4, 551-562.
Abstract
We present results of the detected voltage distribution of a quantum random number generator based on the photonic integration of semiconductor laser, delay interferometer and photodetector. We find that the integrated system behaves as expected for random number generation from gain-switched laser sources. The biggest advantage is that only electrical connections are needed to operate the system without the need for tricky and expensive optical alignment to external circuitry. We supply results showing that random bit stream created from the random numbers passes the NISTS statistical test suite tests; thus demonstrating the feasibility to generate random number via quantum means at gigabit/s rates from a single photonic integrated circuit. The results are backed by numerical simulations.
Keywords
random number generation; integrated photonics; photonics integrated circuit; laser; noise; modulation; quantum effects
Subject
Engineering, Electrical and Electronic Engineering
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