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European Conference on Optical Communication

Monolithic Integration of a Phase Noise Based Quantum Random Number Generator on InP platform

David Alvarez-Outerelo, Marcos Troncoso Costas, Ioannis Roumpos, Themistoklis Chrysostomidis, Valentina Moskalenko, Konstantinos Vyrsokinos, Francisco J. Díaz-Otero

Published Dec 1, 2020• 3 citations
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Abstract

We present the experimental characterization of a fully integrated InP-based quantum random number generator chip composed from a single gain switched DBR laser and two Mach Zehnder interferometers. We demonstrate high degree of randomness by testing the QRNG output in the NIST Statistical Test Suite.
DOI
10.1109/ecoc48923.2020.9333202

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