Open AccessAn Integrated Silicon Photonic Chip for Continuous-Variable Quantum Random Numbers Generator Based on Vacuum Fluctuation
Author(s) -
Maguang Zhu,
Xiangyu Wang,
Bingjie Xu,
Song Yu,
Ziyang Chen,
Hong Guo
Publication year - 2021
Publication title -
journal of physics. conference series
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.21
H-Index - 85
eISSN - 1742-6596
pISSN - 1742-6588
DOI - 10.1088/1742-6596/1865/2/022018
Subject(s) - randomness , nist , photonics , quantum optics , random number generation , chip , silicon photonics , physics , optoelectronics , electronic engineering , optics , computer science , mathematics , algorithm , engineering , telecommunications , statistics , natural language processing
The deployment of quantum random number generator in fiber optics is strongly limited in real world applications due to the size of the components and their cost. Here we present a quantum random number generator based on vacuum fluctuation using an optical homodyne detection in silicon photonic chip achieving minimum entropy/bit of 8.5 for 10 bits sample. The produced random numbers have passed all NIST randomness tests.