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Latin America Optics and Photonics Conference

All-fiber Dynamically Tunable Beamsplitter for Quantum Random Number Generators

Joakim Argillander, Alvaro Alarcón, GUILHERME BARRETO XAVIER

Published Jan 1, 2022• 0 citations
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Abstract

In this work we demonstrate an all-fiber dynamically tunable beamsplitter based on a Sagnac interferometer capable of realizing measurement-device independent protocols for certifying the privacy of the generated sequence.
DOI
10.1364/laop.2022.th1a.2

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