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    OPTOELECTRONIC EXPERIMENTS ON RANDOM BIT GENERATORS AND COUPLED DYNAMICAL SYSTEMS

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    2013
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    Williams, Caitlin Rose Sanford
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    Roy, Rajarshi
    Murphy, Thomas E
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    Optoelectronic systems have many important applications, and they have become ubiquitous in the contexts of communications and sensing. In recent years, optical and optoelectronic systems have been of interest for two newer purposes: generators of random bits and experimental dynamical systems used to understand chaos theory and synchronization. Random bit generators are needed for secure communication, encryption, and Monte Carlo simulations. Algorithm-based pseudorandom number generators are susceptible to being hacked or producing incorrect numerical results in simulations, so physical noise-based sources of random numbers are needed. We have constructed a random bit generator based on amplied spontaneous emission (ASE), with generation rates of 12.5 Gbit/sec [1]. We develop an understanding of the mechanism behind generating random bits from ASE, and we demonstrate its suitability as a random number generator by standard statistical testing used to evaluate the random bits. This is the first use of ASE as a physical random number generator (RNG). Coupled dynamical systems are present in numerous contexts in the natural and man-made world. From neurons in the brain to coupled lasers to pedestrians on a bridge, it is important to understand how coupled dynamical systems or oscillators can synchronize in dierent ways. While many studies of coupled dynamical systems are conducted analytically and numerically, experimental studies are crucial for understanding how systems with real noise and features, which may not be accounted for in the models, actually synchronize. Experimental dynamical systems can display phenomena not previously studied or expected, guiding the development of more sophisticated models and the direction of analytical and numerical work, and experiments offer means for quickly exploring parameter space. Sorrentino and Ott first proposed a theoretical formulation that described a counterintuitive phenomenon they referred to as group synchrony [2]. We show an experimental realization of group synchrony, in which the oscillators are grouped based on different parameters for each group [3]. Despite being coupled only to the oscillators in the dissimilar group, oscillators in the same group identically synchronize, through the mediation provided by the other group. Unidirectional rings of oscillators have been studied in order to understand synchronization between coupled neurons, which can contribute to functions such as locomotion [4, 5]. We show an experimental realization of a uni-directional ring coupling conguration, with tunable coupling delays [6]. By changing the coupling delays, we show that it is possible to obtain dierent synchronization states. We compare experimental results to numerical simulations and calculations of the stability of the synchronous states. We present an experiment of four delay-coupled optoelectronic oscillators as the first experimental observations of both of these novel synchronization phenomena in simple networks of coupled oscillators.
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