2.24-Tb/s Physical Random Bit Generation With Minimal Post-Processing Based on Chaotic Semiconductor Lasers Network

Multi-channel physical random bit generator (RBG) based on a chaotic semiconductor lasers (SLs) network is proposed and experimentally demonstrated. In experiments, a small ring network consisting of three SLs mutually coupled with heterogeneous delays is constructed to obtain chaotic temporal waveforms. The results show that the time-delay signature of chaotic intensities in all the three SLs can be well concealed over wide range of parameters. Through linear combination of the three chaotic outputs, seven channels of chaotic entropy sources can be obtained. Furthermore, by introducing a minimal post-processing technique and directly extracting four least significant bits at 80-GS/s sampling rate, seven channel random bit sequences with verified randomness can be simultaneously achieved, and the total bit rate is 2.24 Tb/s. The proposed RBGs enabling such high generation rate have potential applications in the one-time pad encryption for the high-speed optical communication networks.