Single-Photon W-states of High-Order for Random Number Generation
Markus Gräfe, René Heilmann, Armando Pérez-Leija, Robert Keil, Felix Dreisow, Matthias Heinrich, Stefan Nolte, Demetrios N. Christodoulides, Alexander Szameit · Research in Optical Sciences · 2014
We experimentally demonstrate the generation of high-order photon encoded W-states involving up to 16 spatial optical modes. Additionally, we utilize the inherent probabilistic properties of these multipartite entangled W-states for the generation of genuine random numbers.