| Autor: |
Seán Ó Dúill, Leidy Rodriguez, David Alvarez-Outerelo, Francisco J. Diaz-Otero, Ankit Sharma, Frank Smyth, Liam P. Barry |
| Jazyk: |
angličtina |
| Rok vydání: |
2023 |
| Předmět: |
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| Zdroj: |
Optics, Vol 4, Iss 4, Pp 551-562 (2023) |
| Druh dokumentu: |
article |
| ISSN: |
2673-3269 |
| DOI: |
10.3390/opt4040040 |
| Popis: |
We present the results of the detected voltage distribution of a quantum random number generator (QRNG) based on a photonic integrated circuit comprising a semiconductor laser, delay interferometer and photodetector. We find that the integrated QRNG system behaves as expected for a QRNG from discrete gain-switched laser sources, especially exhibiting all of the peculiarities of the random voltage distribution and behaving as previously demonstrated for a discrete optical component setup. The biggest advantage of having all of the components integrated into a single chip 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 a random bit stream created from the random numbers passes the NIST statistical test suite tests, thus demonstrating the feasibility to generate random numbers via quantum means at gigabit/s rates from a single photonic integrated circuit. All of our results are backed by numerical simulations. |
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