Abstract

We demonstrate physical random bit (PRB) generation from two chaotic optoelectronic oscillators (OEOs) with silicon Mach–Zehnder and microring resonator modulators. The carrier-injection modulation and the beam interference provide the nonlinearity for the OEO. We digitalize the chaotic waveforms from the two OEOs at 40 GS/s with 8-bit resolution and use self-delay bitwise exclusive-or operation as a post-processing method. The randomness of the resulting 320 Gbps PRB sequences is verified by the National Institute of Standards and Technology Special Publication 800-22 statistical tests. With the progress of silicon photonic circuits, there is a potential to fabricate a monolithic chaotic OEO chip for compact PRB generation.

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