Tb/s Fast Random Bit Generation Based on a Broadband Random Optoelectronic Oscillator

Abstract

We experimentally demonstrate Tb/s fast random bit generation from random signals generated in a broadband random optoelectronic oscillator. The broadband random optoelectronic oscillator is used as photoelectron entropy source to generate wideband random signal. We sample the random waveform with a resolution of 10 bits and a sampling rate of 128 GS/s. All 10 bits can be preserved and a generation rate of 2.5 Tb/s (128 GS/s $\times $ 10 bits $\times $ 2 data) is achieved by using time-shift bit-order-reverse bitwise exclusive-or operation as a more complicated post-processing method. The randomness of random bit sequences is verified by using NIST Special Publication 800–22 statistical tests.