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Ultrafast parallel random number generation with a chip-scale semiconductor laser

Kyungduk Kim, Stefan Bittner, Yongquan Zeng, Stefano Guazzotti, Ortwin G. Hess, Qi Jie Wang, Hui W. Cao

Published Oct 1, 2021• 1 citation

Abstract

Spatiotemporal interference of numerous lasing modes in a specially designed cavity accelerates random bit generation in hundreds of spatial channels. The accumulative bit rate reaches 250 Terabit/s, two orders of magnitude higher than the state-of-the-art.

DOI: 10.1109/ipc48725.2021.9592862

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