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ArticleSensors (Basel, Switzerland)2026

Ultrafast Random Number Generation Using Broadband Polarization Chaos in QD Spin-VCSELs.

Christos Tselios, Panagiotis Georgiou, Christina Tanya Politi, Dimitris Alexandropoulos

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Article in Sensors (Basel, Switzerland), 2026. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Not yet cited in PubMed.

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Christos TseliosDepartment of Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of Peloponnese, 22100 Patras, Greece.ORCID 0000-0001-9295-0537
Panagiotis GeorgiouDepartment of Materials Science, University of Patras, 26504 Rion, Greece.ORCID 0000-0002-0309-719X
Christina Tanya PolitiDepartment of Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of Peloponnese, 22100 Patras, Greece.ORCID 0000-0001-7382-3129
Dimitris AlexandropoulosDepartment of Materials Science, University of Patras, 26504 Rion, Greece.ORCID 0000-0002-9198-7984

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Abstract

Semiconductor lasers have been widely employed in chaos-based information processing due to their ability to generate enhanced chaotic bandwidths. In this study, we investigate broadband polarization chaos in optically injected QD spin-VCSELs and their ability to act as high-speed physical entropy sources for random number generation (RNG). We achieve chaotic bandwidths approaching 50 GHz per polarization mode using elliptical injection. With optimized conditions and post-processing, we demonstrate RNG at rates of up to 240 Gb/s. The quality of the generated random sequences is evaluated using multiple statistical metrics, including entropy estimation based on the NIST SP800-90B framework, uniqueness analysis using Hamming distance, and bias assessment through autocorrelation and histogram analysis. In addition, the influence of different polarization injection schemes on randomness is examined using the NIST SP800-22 statistical test suite. These results highlight the potential of QD spin-VCSELs as compact and ultrafast sources for RNG in secure communication systems.

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polarization chaospolarization dynamicsquantum-dot spin-VCSELsspin lasers

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PMCPMC13166014

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