Studying the Possibility of Using Avalanche Photodetectors in the Single-photon Registration Mode to Create Quantum Random-number Generators

Abstract

The possibility of using avalanche photodiodes that operate in the single-photon registration mode as a source of a random physical quantity in generators of random number sequences was evaluated. The operating modes of avalanche photodiodes were determined that allow generation of streams of random events, whose statistical characteristics are similar to those of a Poisson stream. Estimates of the similarity of the properties of generated random binary sequences to the properties of a uniformly distributed sequence are presented.