title: Fully photonics-based physical random bit generator.
abstract: We propose a fully photonics-based approach for ultrafast physical random bit generation. This approach exploits a compact nonlinear loop mirror (called a terahertz optical asymmetric demultiplexer, TOAD) to sample the chaotic optical waveform in an all-optical domain and then generate random bit streams through further comparison with a threshold level. This method can efficiently overcome the electronic jitter bottleneck confronted by existing RBGs in practice. A proof-of-concept experiment demonstrates that this method can continuously extract 5 Gb/s random bit streams from the chaotic output of a distributed feedback laser diode (DFB-LD) with optical feedback. This limited generation rate is caused by the bandwidth of the used optical chaos.
authors.forename: Pu
authors.initials: P
authors.lastname: Li
authors.forename: Yuanyuan
authors.initials: Y
authors.lastname: Sun
authors.forename: Xianglian
authors.initials: X
authors.lastname: Liu
authors.forename: Xiaogang
authors.initials: X
authors.lastname: Yi
authors.forename: Jianguo
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Zhang
authors.forename: Xiaomin
authors.initials: X
authors.lastname: Guo
authors.forename: Yanqiang
authors.initials: Y
authors.lastname: Guo
authors.forename: Yuncai
authors.initials: Y
authors.lastname: Wang