All-Optical Brillouin Random number Generator

TL;DR

This paper introduces an all-optical binary random number generator based on a Brillouin optomechanical system, utilizing thermal noise-induced state transitions controlled by external pump and seed waves, passing standard randomness tests.

Contribution

It presents a novel all-optical RNG model leveraging Brillouin optomechanics with controlled state transitions, enabling integrated true random number generation.

Findings

Successfully passes NIST SP 800-22 tests

Demonstrates control over transition probabilities and times

Proposes a pathway for integrated all-optical True RNG

Abstract

We propose a model of binary random number generator (RNG) based on a Brillouin optomechanical system. The device uses a hard excitation mode in a Brillouin optomechanical system, where thermal noise induces spontaneous transitions between two stable states in the hard excitation mode. We demonstrate the existence of an amplitude criterion for observing these transitions and show that the probability distribution of their occurrence in the non-generating and generating states can be precisely controlled by the amplitude of an external pump wave. At the same time, the use of a low-intensity seed wave allows for the control of the transition times between states. We demonstrate that the proposed random number generator successfully passes the standard tests NIST SP 800-22. The obtained result opens a way for development of an all-optical integrated True RNG, generating a sequence of random bits with equal probability.