A Fibre-Integrated SPDC Heralded Single-Photon Source Using Zn-Indiffused PPLN Ridge Waveguides at Telecom Wavelengths
quant-ph
Submitted: 2026-10-16
Updated: 2026-10-16
License: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
The gist: 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
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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