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Optical Quantum Random Number Generator

André Stefanov, Nicolas Gisin, Olivier Guinnard, Laurent Guinnard, Hugo Zbinden

quant-pharXiv:quant-ph/9907006

Abstract

A physical random number generator based on the intrinsic randomness of quantum mechanics is described. The random events are realized by the choice of single photons between the two outputs of a beamsplitter. We present a simple device, which minimizes the impact of the photon counters' noise, dead-time and after pulses.

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