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most citedBandwidth manipulation of quantum light by an electro-optic time lens

177 citations · 610 across the 22 of their papers we have counts for

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22 papers

physics.optics2025★ 4 cited

Modeling Optical Key Distribution over a Satellite-to-Ground Link Under Weak Atmospheric Turbulence

Artur Czerwinski, Mikołaj Lasota, Marcin Jarzyna +3

In this study, we analyze the secret key capacity of intensity modulation/direct detection optical key distribution (IM/DD OKD) for a free-space optical (FSO) link between a low-Ea…

physics.optics2025★ 1 cited

Simultaneous IM/DD Data Transmission and High-Rate Secret Key Distribution over a Single C-band Channel

Michal Jachura, Jakub Szlachetka, Mateusz Kucharczyk +4

We demonstrate hierarchical multiscale PAM-4 transmission combining 500 Mbps data transfer with optical-layer cryptographic key distribution at rates 24.14 Mbps and 8.38 Mbps secur…

quant-ph2025

Tx-Rx Mode Mismatch Effects in Gaussian-Modulated CV QKD

Mateusz Kucharczyk, Michal Jachura, Marcin Jarzyna +2

The impact of technical limitations on pulse shaping used to generate a CV QKD signal is quantified in terms of the attainable secure key rate. Optimization of key spectral efficie…

quant-ph2025★ 8 cited

Quantum Pulse Gate Attack on IM/DD Optical Key Distribution Exploiting Symbol Shape Distortion

M. Jarzyna, M. Jachura, K. Banaszek

Intensity modulation/direct detection (IM/DD) optical key distribution (OKD) is a method to generate a secret key whose security against passive eavesdropping is guaranteed by the…

quant-ph2025★ 14 cited

Photon information efficiency limits in deep-space optical communications

M. Jarzyna, L. Kunz, W. Zwolinski +2

Deep-space optical communication links operate under severely limited signal power, approaching the photon-starved regime which requires a receiver capable of measuring individual…

physics.optics2021★ 18 cited

Optimization of intensity-modulation/direct-detection optical key distribution under passive eavesdropping

Konrad Banaszek, Michal Jachura, Piotr Kolenderski +1

We analyze theoretically optimal operation of an optical key distribution (OKD) link based on fine intensity modulation of an optical signal transmitted over an attenuating channel…

quant-ph2020★ 69 cited

Quantum Limits in Optical Communications

Konrad Banaszek, Ludwig Kunz, Michał Jachura +1

This tutorial reviews the Holevo capacity limit as a universal tool to analyze the ultimate transmission rates in a variety of optical communication scenarios, ranging from convent…

quant-ph2019★ 14 cited

Approaching the ultimate capacity limit in deep-space optical communication

Konrad Banaszek, Ludwig Kunz, Marcin Jarzyna +1

The information capacity of an optical channel under power constraints is ultimately limited by the quantum nature of transmitted signals. We discuss currently available and emergi…

quant-ph2018★ 5 cited

Optimizing deep-space optical communication under power constraints

Marcin Jarzyna, Wojciech Zwoliński, Michał Jachura +1

We investigate theoretically the efficiency of deep-space optical communication in the presence of background noise. With decreasing average signal power spectral density, a scalin…

eess.SP2017★ 13 cited

Structured Optical Receivers for Efficient Deep-Space Communication

Konrad Banaszek, Michał Jachura

We discuss conceptual designs for structured optical receivers that can alleviate the requirement for high peak-to-average power ratio in photon-starved optical communication. The…

quant-ph2017★ 11 cited

Quantum fingerprinting using two-photon interference

Michał Jachura, Michał Lipka, Marcin Jarzyna +1

We present a quantum fingerprinting protocol relying on two-photon interference which does not require a shared phase reference between the parties preparing optical signals carryi…

quant-ph2017★ 8 cited

Visibility-based hypothesis testing using higher-order optical interference

Michał Jachura, Marcin Jarzyna, Michał Lipka +2

Many quantum information protocols rely on optical interference to compare datasets with efficiency or security unattainable by classical means. Standard implementations exploit fi…

physics.ins-det2017★ 1 cited

Measurement of radio-frequency temporal phase modulation using spectral interferometry

Michał Jachura, Jan Szczepanek, Wojciech Wasilewski +1

We present an optical method to measure radio-frequency electro-optic phase modulation profiles by employing spectrum-to-time mapping realized by highly chirped optical pulses. We…

quant-ph2017★ 4 cited

Generation and characterization of discrete spatial entanglement in multimode nonlinear waveguides

Michał Jachura, Michał Karpiński, Konrad Banaszek +3

We analyze theoretically spontaneous parametric down-conversion in a multimode nonlinear waveguide as a source of entangled pairs of spatial qubits, realized as superpositions of a…

quant-ph2016★ 177 cited

Bandwidth manipulation of quantum light by an electro-optic time lens

Michal Karpinski, Michal Jachura, Laura J. Wright +1

The ability to manipulate the spectral-temporal waveform of optical pulses has enabled a wide range of applications from ultrafast spectroscopy to high-speed communications. Extend…

quant-ph2015★ 18 cited

Quantum memory receiver for superadditive communication using binary coherent states

Aleksandra Klimek, Michał Jachura, Wojciech Wasilewski +1

We propose a simple architecture based on multimode quantum memories for collective readout of classical information keyed using a pair coherent states, exemplified by the well-kno…

quant-ph2015★ 7 cited

Scheme for on-chip verification of transverse mode entanglement using the electro-optic effect

Divya Bharadwaj, K. Thyagarajan, Michał Jachura +2

A key ingredient in emerging quantum-enhanced technologies is the ability to coherently manipulate and detect superpositions of basis states. In integrated optics implementations,…

quant-ph2015★ 117 cited

Hologram of a Single Photon

Radosław Chrapkiewicz, Michał Jachura, Konrad Banaszek +1

The spatial structure of single photons is becoming an extensively explored resource used for facilitating the free-space quantum key distribution and quantum computation as well a…

quant-ph2015★ 36 cited

Mode engineering for realistic quantum-enhanced interferometry

Michał Jachura, Radosław Chrapkiewicz, Rafał Demkowicz-Dobrzański +2

Quantum metrology overcomes standard precision limits by exploiting collective quantum superpositions of physical systems used for sensing, with the prominent example of non-classi…

quant-ph2015★ 56 cited

Shot-by-shot imaging of Hong-Ou-Mandel interference with an intensified sCMOS camera

Michał Jachura, Radosław Chrapkiewicz

We report the first observation of Hong-Ou-Mandel (HOM) interference of highly indistinguishable photon pairs with spatial resolution. Direct imaging of two-photon coalescence with…

quant-ph2014★ 12 cited

Bright Integrated Photon-Pair Source for Practical Passive Decoy-State Quantum Key Distribution

Stephan Krapick, Michael Stefszky, Michal Jachura +3

We report on a bright, nondegenerate type-I parametric down-conversion source, which is well suited for passive decoy-state quantum key distribution. We show the photon-number-reso…

quant-ph2014★ 17 cited

High-visibility nonclassical interference of photon pairs generated in a multimode nonlinear waveguide

Michał Jachura, Michał Karpiński, Czesław Radzewicz +1

We report measurements of two-photon interference using a cw-pumped type-II spontaneous parametric down-conversion source based on a multimode perodically poled potassium titanyl p…