A laser to generate randomness for next-gen information security and encryption
2nd March 2021
Scientists from Trinity’s School of Physics, with collaborators at Yale University, CentraleSupelec, France, and Nanyang Technological University in Singapore, have developed a tiny chip-scale laser system to harvest quantum fluctuations in semiconductor lasers on ultrasmall scales at unprecedented speed.
The new technology can be used to underpin modern technologies’ requirements for randomly generated digital information.
Their technique, published today in
Science, uses a specially designed hour-glass-shaped semiconductor laser to generate hundreds of tiny, random light waves that when detected with a device called a photodetector, can be transformed into random strings of ‘1’s and ‘0’s, or binary code, which is at the foundation of modern digital communications.
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Sarah also talks with Hui Cao, a professor of applied physics at Yale University, about a new way to generate enormous streams of random numbers faster than ever before, using a tiny laser that can fit on a computer chip.
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