International Journal of Quantum Information

HIGH SPEED QUANTUM-RANDOM-NUMBER GENERATION VIA MEASUREMENT ON PHASE NOISE OF LASER

YANYANG ZHU, Yuan Lü, Jun Ping Zhu, Guihua Zeng

Published Jun 1, 2011• 8 citations

Abstract

The high speed quantum-random-number generation based on measuring the quantum phase noise of DFB diode laser is investigated experimentally in this paper. The quantum randomness of the generated random string is physically guaranteed by measuring the random phase fluctuation of laser. The generated random string can pass all the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) tests and the random number generation rate is up to 1.25 Gbps.

DOI: 10.1142/s0219749911007836

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