Method and device for optics based quantum random number generation

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PATENT NO 10331412
APP PUB NO 20170337037A1
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15659454

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A device for random number generation based on an optical process of quantum nature, including a light source emitting photons randomly, a light detector adapted to absorb the randomly emitted photons and to measure a number n of photons produced by the light source in a time interval T, and a randomness extractor. The detector includes a photon sensor acting as a photon-to-electron converter, an amplifier for converting the electron signal received from the photon sensor into a voltage and amplifying the voltage signal, as well as an analog-to-digital converter for processing the amplified signal received from the amplifier by encoding the amplified signal into digital values and sending these digital values to the randomness extractor for further processing such as to produce quantum random numbers (QRNs) based on the number of photons produced by the light source in a time interval T.

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UNIVERSITE DE GENEVE24 RUE DE GENERAL-DUFOUR 1211 GENEVE 4

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Gisin, Nicolas Vessy, CH 13 230
Martin, Anthony Nice, FR 59 977
Sanguinetti, Bruno Genève, CH 9 33
Zbinden, Hugo Genève, CH 13 282

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