ECOC20 – IQqrng
True Random Number Generation
in an Optical I/Q Modulator
ECOC 2020, virtual event, Dec. 2020, Th.2H.5
Authors
Nemanja Vokić, Dinka Milovančev, Christoph Pacher, Hannes Hübel, and Bernhard Schrenk
Abstract
We re-use a polarization-multiplexed I/Q modulator to acquire the quantum randomness of its seed laser light for the purpose of quantum random number generation. We obtain 9×10^4 256-bit AES keys/second after randomness extraction. Time-interleaved random number generation is demonstrated for PM-QPSK transmission.