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arXiv:2610.23499

A Fibre-Integrated SPDC Source of Broadband Polarisation-Entangled Photon Pairs at Telecom Wavelengths using Zn-indiffused PPLN Ridge Waveguides

Peter Iveson, Paolo L. Mennea, Goronwy Tawy, Rex H. S. Bannerman, Noe Palomar-Davidson, Greg Blanchard-Emmerson, Patrick M. Ledingham, Peter G. R. Smith, James C. Gates, Corin B. E. Gawith

quant-phSubmitted Oct 16, 2026• Announced Oct 19, 2026• Revised Oct 30, 2026 (v2)
v1 · Oct 16, 2026v2 · Oct 30, 2026
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Abstract

We demonstrate a fully fibre-integrated source of broadband polarisation-entangled photon pairs at telecom wavelengths based on a commercially available Zn-indiffused MgO:PPLN ridge waveguide incorporated within a Sagnac interferometer. Operating across the full degenerate SPDC spectrum using pump-suppression filtering only, the source exhibits a measured bandwidth of approximately 67 nm. Strong non-classical correlations are observed, with an average two-photon interference visibility of 96.9 +/- 0.2 %, a fidelity to the Phi + Bell state of 78.1 %, and a CHSH Bell parameter of S = 2.501 +/- 0.005. We further explore the effect of increasing source brightness on Bell-state performance, revealing the limitations of accidental-corrected metrics in high-flux operating regimes.

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We report a fibre-integrated heralded single-photon source based on a commercial Zn-indiffused MgO:PPLN ridge waveguide operated in Type-0 degenerate spontaneous parametric down-conversion (SPDC). The device emits a broadband spectrum spanning approximately 70 nm across the telecom C-and L-bands, with an absolute brightness of 9.1×1099.1\times 10^{9}9.1×109 pairs/(s mW). After accounting for optical losses, we determine an internal heralding efficiency of 58(5)%. The source maintains high purity, exhibiting a coincidences-to-accidentals ratio exceeding 9×1049\times 10^{4}9×104 and a heralded second-order correlation of gh(2)(0)=(5.53±0.46)×10−4g_{\text{h}}^{(2)}(0) = (5.53 \pm 0.46)\times 10^{-4}gh(2)​(0)=(5.53±0.46)×10−4. Low multi-photon noise and broadband emission demonstrate the viability of such platforms for wavelength-multiplexed quantum networking.
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The scalability of quantum communication networks requires compact, fiber-integrated, easy-to-deploy, and efficient wavelength-division-multiplexed (WDM) sources for multi-user secure key distribution. Here, we demonstrate such a multi-channel source of polarization-entangled photon pairs in the low-loss telecom C-band based on type-0 spontaneous parametric downconversion in a fiber-coupled Zn-indiffused MgO-doped periodically poled lithium-niobate (MgO:PPLN) ridge waveguide in the Sagnac configuration. The source can be easily tuned to generate the |Φ+⟩ or |Φ−⟩ Bell state in 14 channel pairs of the International Telecommunication Union dense WDM (100-GHz spacing) grid around 1550-nm with a raw fidelity of ≳89%, with a maximum value of ≳94%. The raw concurrence is ≳0.8 for both Bell states in all channel pairs, and the observed S-parameter (>2.56 ± 0.04 in all 14-channel pairs) shows a strong violation of CHSH-Bell’s inequality. The source’s suitability for long-distance entanglement transmission is also demonstrated by the successful transfer of entangled photons up to 100 km while maintaining fidelity >85% and quantum bit error rate <9%. The effect of polarization mode dispersion on entanglement distribution among remote users is also studied in detail. All these performance metrics are measured using conventional room-temperature semiconductor-based single-photon avalanche detectors, and these are the best reported with these detectors. Our highly flexible source can support up to ∼40 user pairs to communicate simultaneously, and it can be easily deployed into the current metro-area fiber-optic telecom infrastructure to form a complete WDM-based quantum communication network.
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