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Perfect chaos

Nature Photonics volume 2, page 760 (2008)Cite this article

Laser noise and chaos are unwanted elements in most circumstances. However, scientists have now learnt how to put them to good use to generate high-quality random bit sequences. Atsushi Uchida from Saitama University in Japan tells Nature Photonics how.

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Won, R. Perfect chaos. Nature Photon 2, 760 (2008). https://doi.org/10.1038/nphoton.2008.246

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