Practical wavelength selection for quantum-augmented networks over shared optical fiber
Abstract
In a quantum augmented network, sharing optical fiber with classical traffic requires quantum wavelength selection to balance logical fidelity, block acceptance, and classical data reception. Here we develop a wavelength-selection framework for an error-corrected three-stage quantum communication protocol. Under a thermal-background model with independent errors, an ideal one-photon receiver, and ideal recovery, we derive an accepted qubit channel and a key-independent lower bound on logical entanglement fidelity. Combining this bound with block acceptance gives an entanglement-fidelity yield bound, which we maximize over evaluated wavelengths subject to fidelity and classical link-budget requirements. For the Steane [[7,1,3]] code at 5 km per traversal and -10 dBm per classical channel, the largest fidelity certificate occurs near 1537 nm, whereas the largest yield bound occurs near 1551 nm. Along the 1.25 Gb/s classical link budget with 0.2% base error, the optimized yield bound falls below 10^-6 near 10 km per traversal, while fidelity remains certified at 0.99 or higher at longer spans. These results distinguish fidelity and yield constraints and identify certified operating regions for quantum-augmented networks sharing optical fiber.
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BibTeX
@misc{jha2026practical,
title = {{Practical wavelength selection for quantum-augmented networks over shared optical fiber}},
author = {Nitin Jha and Prateek Paudel and Abhishek Parakh},
howpublished = {arXiv},
year = {2026},
month = oct,
doi = {10.48550/arxiv.2610.20987},
eprint = {2610.20987},
archivePrefix = {arXiv},
url = {https://arxiv.org/abs/2610.20987},
note = {CC BY 4.0},
}
RIS
TY - UNPB
TI - Practical wavelength selection for quantum-augmented networks over shared optical fiber
AU - Nitin Jha
AU - Prateek Paudel
AU - Abhishek Parakh
PY - 2026
DA - 2026/10/14
PB - arXiv
DO - 10.48550/arxiv.2610.20987
UR - https://arxiv.org/abs/2610.20987
AB - In a quantum augmented network, sharing optical fiber with classical traffic requires quantum wavelength selection to balance logical fidelity, block acceptance, and classical data reception. Here we develop a wavelength-selection framework for an error-corrected three-stage quantum communication protocol. Under a thermal-background model with independent errors, an ideal one-photon receiver, and ideal recovery, we derive an accepted qubit channel and a key-independent lower bound on logical entanglement fidelity. Combining this bound with block acceptance gives an entanglement-fidelity yield bound, which we maximize over evaluated wavelengths subject to fidelity and classical link-budget requirements. For the Steane [[7,1,3]] code at 5 km per traversal and -10 dBm per classical channel, the largest fidelity certificate occurs near 1537 nm, whereas the largest yield bound occurs near 1551 nm. Along the 1.25 Gb/s classical link budget with 0.2% base error, the optimized yield bound falls below 10^-6 near 10 km per traversal, while fidelity remains certified at 0.99 or higher at longer spans. These results distinguish fidelity and yield constraints and identify certified operating regions for quantum-augmented networks sharing optical fiber.
ER -