Quantum Optical Devices Lab (QODL)

Profile

Michał Parniak-Niedojadło, PhD, DSc
e-mail: m.parniak@cent.uw.edu.pl
phone: +48 22 55 43786
room: 00.51
ORCID: 0000-0002-6849-4671
SCOPUS ID: 7006356357

The Quantum Optical Devices Laboratory studies the fundamentals and applications of optical devices operating in the quantum regime. Our focus is on imaging systems, where we use quantum information theory to improve classical imaging systems and work to develop new imaging methods that exploit the full quantum information present in the optical field. We are also studying quantum nonlinear processes in atomic media to implement quantum image processing at the level of single photons. To this end, we seek to exploit giant Rydberg atoms that can mediate interactions between photons. Finally, we also use atomic media to explore imaging in the time and frequency domain, both in the ultranarrowaand and ultrafast regimes. Applications of such atomic systems range from communication, where they can operate as transmitter or receiver, to quantum sensing.

Leader

Michał Parniak-Niedojadło – CV

Team

Leader
Michał Parniak-Niedojadło, PhD, DSc

Postdocs
Mateusz Mazelanik, PhD

PhD Students
Sebastian Borówka, MSc
Gabriel Ko, MSc
Marcin Jastrzębski, MSc
Stanisław Kurzyna, MSc
Wiktor Krokosz, MSc

Students
Bartosz Niewelt
Jan Nowosielski

Selected projects

Selected publications

• Lipka M., Parniak M.
  Super-resolution of ultrafast pulses via spectral inversion
  (2024) Optica, 11 (9), pp. 1226 – 1234
  DOI: 10.1364/OPTICA.522555
• Nowosielski J., JastrzęBski M., Halavach P., Łukanowski K., Jarzyna M., Mazelanik M., Wasilewski W., Parniak M.
  Warm Rydberg atom-based quadrature amplitude-modulated receiver
  (2024) Optics Express, 32 (17), pp. 30027 – 30039
  DOI: 10.1364/OE.529977
• Galinskiy I., Enzian G., Parniak M., Polzik E.S.
  Nonclassical Correlations between Photons and Phonons of Center-of-Mass Motion of a Mechanical Oscillator
  (2024) Physical Review Letters, 133 (17), art. no. 173605
  DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.133.173605
• Borówka S., Krokosz W., Mazelanik M., Wasilewski W., Parniak M.
  Rydberg-atom-based system for benchmarking millimeter-wave automotive radar chips
  (2024) Physical Review Applied, 22 (3), art. no. 034067
  DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevApplied.22.034067
• Krokosz W., Mazelanik M., Lipka M., Jarzyna M., Wasilewski W., Banaszek K., Parniak M.
  Unlocking Sub-Diffraction Spectral Resolution with Quantum-Enhanced Heterodyne Detection
  (2024) 16th Pacific Rim Conference on Lasers and Electro-Optics, CLEO-PR 2024
  DOI: 10.1109/CLEO-PR60912.2024.10676578
• Niewelt B., Jastrzębski M., Kurzyna S., Nowosielski J., Wasilewski W., Mazelanik M., Parniak M.
  Optical Fractional Fourier Transform in the time-frequency domain based on a quantum memory
  (2024) Quantum 2.0 in Proceedings Quantum 2.0 Conference and Exhibition
• Borówka S., Pylypenko U., Mazelanik M., Parniak M.
  Continuous wideband microwave-to-optical converter based on room-temperature Rydberg atoms
  (2024) Nature Photonics, 18 (1), pp. 32 – 38
  DOI: 10.1038/s41566-023-01295-w
• Mazelanik M., Leszczyński A., Szawełło T., Parniak M.
  Coherent optical two-photon resonance tomographic imaging in three dimensions
  (2023) Communications Physics, 6 (1), art. no. 165
  DOI: 10.1038/s42005-023-01284-z
• Lipka M., Parniak M.
  Ultrafast electro-optic time-frequency fractional Fourier imaging at the single-photon level
  (2024) Optics Express, 32 (6), pp. 9573 – 9588
  DOI: 10.1364/OE.507911
• Krokosz W., Mazelanik M., Lipka M., Jarzyna M., Wasilewski W., Banaszek K., Parniak M.
  Beating the spectroscopic Rayleigh limit via post-processed heterodyne detection
  (2024) Optics Letters, 49 (4), pp. 1001 – 1004
  DOI: 10.1364/OL.514659

Contact

Michał Parniak-Niedojadło, PhD, DSc
e-mail: m.parniak@cent.uw.edu.pl
phone: +48 22 55 43786
room: 00.51