Frédéric Monet, Jean-Sébastien Boisvert and Raman Kashyap
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Abstract
A simple novel method for random number generation is presented, based on a random Raman fiber laser. This laser is built in a half-open cavity scheme, closed on one side by a narrow-linewidth 100 mm fiber Bragg grating. The interaction between the randomly excited lasing modes of this laser, in addition to nonlinear effects such as modulation instability, allow the generation of random bits at rates of up to 540 Gbps with minimal post processing. Evaluation of the resulting bit streams’ randomness by the NIST statistical test suite highlights the importance of evaluating the physical entropy content, as bit sequences generated by this random laser pass all the statistical tests with a significance level of 0.01, despite being generated at more than twice the theoretical entropy generation speed.
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Fibre lasers ; Nonlinear optics
| Subjects: |
2500 Electrical and electronic engineering > 2500 Electrical and electronic engineering 3100 Physics > 3100 Physics 3100 Physics > 3111 Lasers |
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| Department: |
Department of Electrical Engineering Department of Engineering Physics |
| Research Center: | POLY-GRAMES - Advanced Research Centre in Microwaves and Space Electronics |
| Funders: | Vanier Canada Graduate Scholarship program, Canadian Foundation for Innovation, CRSNG / NSERC - Strategic Grants program, Fonds de Recherche du Québec - Nature et Technologies |
| PolyPublie URL: | https://publications.polymtl.ca/9295/ |
| Journal Title: | Scientific Reports (vol. 11, no. 1) |
| Publisher: | Springer Nature |
| DOI: | 10.1038/s41598-021-92668-0 |
| Official URL: | https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-021-92668-0 |
| Date Deposited: | 27 Feb 2023 11:52 |
| Last Modified: | 14 Mar 2025 15:53 |
| Cite in APA 7: | Monet, F., Boisvert, J.-S., & Kashyap, R. (2021). A simple high-speed random number generator with minimal post-processing using a random Raman fiber laser. Scientific Reports, 11(1), 13182 (8 pages). https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-021-92668-0 |
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