ZHAO Jia-min, LI Pu, JIA Zhi-wei, et al. All-optical Physical Random Number Generation based on VCSEL Mode Hopping. [J]. (6):40-44(2020) DOI: 10.13756/j.gtxyj.2020.06.011.
All-optical Physical Random Number Generation based on VCSEL Mode Hopping
In view of the complexity and bulkiness of most current random number generation schemes
we theoretically propose and demonstrate an all-optical physical random number generation method based on Vertical-Cavity Surface-Emitting Laser(VCSEL) mode hopping. Through periodically restarting a VCSEL operating in a bistable regime with a square-wave modulation signal
and balancing the asymmetry between two polarization modes utilizing spontaneous emission noise
a random number stream can be directly generated. Numerical results show that 2.5 Gbit/s physical random numbers can be obtained with verified randomness. This scheme can be simply implemented by only a solitary VCSEL and provide a new solution for photonic integrated random number generator.
关键词
光通信全光物理随机数模式跳变垂直腔面发射激光器
Keywords
optical communicationsall-optical physical random numbermode hoppingVCSEL