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We demonstrate a high bit-rate quantum random number generator by interferometric detection of phase diffusion in a gain-switched DFB laser diode. Gain switching at few-GHz frequencies produces a train of bright pulses with nearly equal…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2015-06-18 C. Abellan , W. Amaya , M. Jofre , M. Curty , A. Acin , J. Capmany , V. Pruneri , M. W. Mitchell

We present a random number generation scheme based on measuring the phase fluctuations of a laser with a simple and compact experimental setup. A simple model is established to analyze the randomness and the simulation result based on this…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2017-09-05 Jie Yang , Jinlu Liu , Qi Su , Zhengyu Li , Fan Fan , Bingjie Xu , Hong Guo

The exponential growth of data transmission and processing speeds in modern digital infrastructure requires entropy sources capable of producing large volumes of true randomness for information security. Chaotic emissions from semiconductor…

Optics · Physics 2026-01-01 Chin-Hao Tseng , Atsushi Uchida , Sheng-Kwang Hwang

Fast secure random number generation is essential for high-speed encrypted communication, and is the backbone of information security. Generation of truly random numbers depends on the intrinsic randomness of the process used and is usually…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2019-05-15 Ben Haylock , Daniel Peace , Francesco Lenzini , Christian Weedbrook , Mirko Lobino

We present a random number generation scheme that uses broadband measurements of the vacuum field contained in the radio-frequency sidebands of a single-mode laser. Even though the measurements may contain technical noise, we show that…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2011-07-25 T. Symul , S. M. Assad , P. K. Lam

The generation of random numbers via quantum processes is an efficient and reliable method to obtain true indeterministic random numbers that are of vital importance to cryptographic communication and large-scale computer modeling. However,…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2015-05-20 J. Y. Haw , S. M. Assad , A. M. Lance , N. H. Y. Ng , V. Sharma , P. K. Lam , T. Symul

We propose a method for quantum noise extraction from the interference of laser pulses with random phase. Our technique is based on the calculation of a parameter, which we called the quantum reduction factor, and which allows determining…

Quantum random number generator harnesses the power of quantum mechanics to generate true random numbers, making it valuable for various scientific applications. However, real-world devices often suffer from imperfections that can undermine…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2023-12-07 Xing Lin , Rong Wang

We demonstrate on-chip quantum random number generation at high data rates using the random phases of gain-switched laser pulses. Interference of the gain-switched pulses produced by two independent semiconductor lasers is performed on a…

Random number generators are essential to ensure performance in information technologies, including cryptography, stochastic simulations and massive data processing. The quality of random numbers ultimately determines the security and…

In this work, we designed and experimentally verified a highly integrated broadband entropy source for a quantum random number generator (QRNG) based on vacuum fluctuations. The core of the entropy source is a hybrid…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-05-04 Xuyang Wang , Yuqi Shi , Ning Wang , Jie Yun , Jiaxu Li , Yanxiang Jia , Shuaishuai Liu , Zhenguo Lu , Jun Zou , Yongmin Li

We propose and implement a simple and compact quantum random number generation (QRNG) scheme based on the quantum phase fluctuations of a DFB laser. The distribution probability of the experimentally measured data fits well with the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2017-04-05 Jinlu Liu , Jie Yang , Zhengyu Li , Wei Huang , Bingjie Xu , Hong Guo

Random numbers are a fundamental resource in science and technology. Among the different approaches to generating them, random numbers created by exploiting the laws of quantum mechanics have proven to be reliable and can be produced at…

Phase-randomized optical homodyne detection is a well-known technique for performing quantum state tomography. So far, it has been mainly considered a sophisticated tool for laboratory experiments but unsuitable for practical applications.…

Random number generation is an enabling technology for fields as varied as Monte Carlo simulations and quantum information science. An important application is a secure quantum key distribution (QKD) system; here, we propose and demonstrate…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2018-10-05 Qiang Zhou , Raju Valivarthi , Caleb John , Wolfgang Tittel

White Gaussian noise (WGN) is widely used in communication system testing, physical modeling, Monte Carlo simulations, and electronic countermeasures. WGN generation relies heavily on random numbers. In this work, we present an…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-03-07 Guan-Ru Qiao , Bing Bai , Zi-Xuan Weng , Jia-Ying Wu , You-Qi Nie , Jun Zhang

Secure random numbers are a fundamental element of many applications in science, statistics, cryptography and more in general in security protocols. We present a method that enables the generation of high-speed unpredictable random numbers…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2017-02-15 Davide G. Marangon , Giuseppe Vallone , Paolo Villoresi

As a fundamental phenomenon in nature, randomness has a wide range of applications in the fields of science and engineering. Among different types of random number generators (RNG), quantum random number generator (QRNG) is a kind of…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2019-04-19 Bingjie Xu , Ziyang Chen , Zhengyu Li , Jie Yang , Qi Su , Wei Huang , Yichen Zhang , Hong Guo

Quantum random number generators are becoming mandatory in a demanding technology world of high performing learning algorithms and security guidelines. Our implementation based on principles of quantum mechanics enable us to achieve the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2021-07-19 Anindita Banerjee , Deepika Aggarwal , Ankush Sharma , Ganesh Yadav

Random numbers are a fundamental resource in science and engineering with important applications in simulation and cryptography. The inherent randomness at the core of quantum mechanics makes quantum systems a perfect source of entropy.…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2017-02-28 Miguel Herrero-Collantes , Juan Carlos Garcia-Escartin