![A chip detects laser fluctuations to generate random numbers. (credit: Kyungduk Kim)](https://appliedphysics.yale.edu/sites/default/files/styles/adaptive/adaptive-image/public/hui-cao-lab-rnadom-numbers_0.jpg?itok=nao--oyv)
March 5, 2021
Sarah Crespi talks with Hui Cao, a professor of applied physics at Yale University, about a new way to generate enormous streams of random numbers faster than ever before, using a tiny laser that can fit on a computer chip. Listen to the Science Podcast.