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The patent badge is an abbreviated version of the USPTO patent document. The patent badge covers the following: Patent number, Date patent was issued, Date patent was filed, Title of the patent, Applicant, Inventor, Assignee, Attorney firm, Primary examiner, Assistant examiner, CPCs, and Abstract. The patent badge does contain a link to the full patent document (in Adobe Acrobat format, aka pdf). To download or print any patent click here.

Date of Patent:
Aug. 08, 2023

Filed:

Feb. 28, 2020
Applicant:

Fraunhofer-gesellschaft Zur Foerderung Der Angewandten Forschung E.v., Munich, DE;

Inventors:

Martin Blasl, Dresden, DE;

Florenta Costache, Dresden, DE;

Attorneys:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G02F 1/21 (2006.01); G02F 1/19 (2019.01); H04L 9/08 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
H04L 9/0861 (2013.01); G02F 1/217 (2021.01); G02F 2201/122 (2013.01);
Abstract

A device for generating a key has a multimode interferometer which can be coupled to a light source and has a light path having an electro-optical material, the light path being configured to obtain light at an input side, influence the light under the influence of a locally varying refraction index of the electro-optical material and provide influenced light at an output side. The device has a receiver configured to receive the influenced light at the output side, and has an evaluator configured to perform an evaluation based on the influenced light and to generate the key based on the evaluation.


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