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Quantum Random Number Generator based on Phase Diffusion in Lasers using an On-chip Tunable SOI Unbalanced Mach-Zehnder Interferometer (uMZI)

Muhammad Imran, Vito Sorianello, Francesco Fresi, Luca Potì, M. Romagnoli

Published Jan 1, 2020• 4 citations
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Abstract

A 12.5Gb/s QRNG based on phase diffusion in gain switched lasers is demonstrated using a packaged on-chip SOI tunable unbalanced MZI achieving minimum entropy/bit of 5.04 for 8 bit sample passing all NIST randomness tests.
DOI
10.1364/ofc.2020.m1d.5

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