A team of international scientists has developed a laser that can generate 254 trillion random digits per second, more than a hundred times faster than computer-based random number generators (RNG).

“This is a marvelous step” toward more efficient random number generation, says Rajarshi Roy, a physicist at the University of Maryland in College Park who was not involved in the work. Random number ...

A renewable, low impact random laser built from birch leaves and peanuts shows a path to affordable medical diagnostics using fully sustainable materials. (Nanowerk News) Physicists at Umeå University ...

(Nanowerk Spotlight) Converting electrical energy into laser light has traditionally relied on precisely aligned optical components that direct light back and forth within a cavity. While these ...

Using a single, chip-scale laser, scientists have managed to generate streams of completely random numbers at about 100 times the speed of the fastest random-numbers generator systems that are ...