A Fibre-Integrated SPDC Heralded Single-Photon Source Using Zn-Indiffused PPLN Ridge Waveguides at Telecom Wavelengths

Peter Iveson, Paolo L. Mennea, Goronwy Tawy +7

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-co…