Adam Widomski succesfully defended his PhD thesis on 3 October 2025 and got his PhD title formally awarded today! Congratulations for successfully finishing your PhD at QPL! Wishing you all the best in your career! More details available here (sorry, mostly in Polish).
Our recent three papers on high-dimensional QKD were featured in Optics&Photonics News: https://www.optica-opn.org/home/newsroom/2025/october/quantum_key_distribution_in_four_dimensions/ . High-dimensional quantum key distribution with resource-efficient detection Maciej Ogrodnik, Adam Widomski, Dagmar Bruß, Giovanni Chesi, Federico Grasselli, Hermann Kampermann, Chiara Macchiavello, Nathan Walk, Nikolai Wyderka, Michał Karpiński Optica Quantum 3, 372–380 (2025). Quantum key distribution with …
Huge congratulations to Natalia Bednarek for becoming one of the 2025 Optica Women Scholars. Natalia received one of only 20 scholarships available wordwide from Optica. Click here and here to learn more about the scholarship!
Jan Krzyżanowski received a distinction in the 2025 Adam Smoliński national competition for the best diploma these in optoelectronics. Congratulations! Please click here to learn more about the competition.
September 2024 was a month of BSc and MSc thesis defences at QPL. Congratulations to Natalia, Antoni and Michał C. for succesfully defending their Bachelor theses and to Janek for a stellar defence of his Master’s thesis!
At the beginning of September, Michał Karpiński and Michał Mikołajczyk participated in the Sympozjum Techniki Laserowej (Laser Technology Symposium).Michał Mikołajczyk was awarded the second prize in the prof. Zbigniew Puzewicz competition for his oral presentation. Congratulations!
From 23 to 28 June 2024 we hosted the Summer School on Mid-Infrared Quantum Sensing and Technologies. More than 80 participants, including 18 excellent lecturers, more than 50 posters – this was an exciting week full of learning and networking. Check miraqls.fuw.edu.pl for more details.
Ali Golestani succesfully defended his PhD thesis on 29 November 2023 and got his PhD title formally awarded today! Congratulations for successfully finishing the second PhD at QPL! Wishing you all the best in your new position in Toronto. More details available here (sorry, mostly in Polish).
This summer we have two summer students: Karol from Wrocław University of Science and Technology, on a Candela Foundation scholarship, and Doğukan from Turkey. We are also enjoying a visit of Prof. Brian Smith from the University of Oregon (USA).
Congratulations to Filip Sośnicki and the team on publishing the Interface between picosecond and nanosecond quantum light pulses paper in the top Nature Photonics journal. The paper was highlighted by the publisher with a News&Views perspective by John Donohue! https://www.nature.com/articles/s41566-023-01277-y Arxiv preprint: https://arxiv.org/abs/2211.05112 Read-only link to the published version (for …
