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Frontiers in Optics

Photon Statistics Effects on a QRNG of Vacuum Fluctuations

Abdulrahman Dandasi, Helin Ozel, Kadir Durak

Published Jan 1, 2020• 0 citations
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Optical scattering enhances randomness characteristics, increases the chaotic behavior of coherent sources, broadens the distribution of photon statistics and makes it super-Poissonian which allows faster sampling compared to Poissonian.
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10.1364/fio.2020.jm6b.3

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