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Opt Express. 2020 Mar 02;28(5):6209-6224. doi: 10.1364/OE.380156.

Quantum noise extraction from the interference of laser pulses in an optical quantum random number generator.

Optics express

Roman Shakhovoy, Denis Sych, Violetta Sharoglazova, Alexander Udaltsov, Aleksey Fedorov, Yury Kurochkin

PMID: 32225875 DOI: 10.1364/OE.380156

Abstract

We propose a method for quantum noise extraction from the interference of laser pulses with random phase. Our technique is based on the calculation of a parameter, which we called the quantum reduction factor, and which allows for the determination of the contributions of quantum and classical noises with the assumption that classical fluctuations exhibit Gaussian distribution. To the best of our knowledge, the concept of quantum reduction factor is introduced for the first time. We use such an approach to implement the post-processing-free optical quantum random number generator with the random bit generation rate of 2 Gbps.

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