Laser Centre

Research group no. 27

Laser Centre

Group leader

dr hab. Yuriy Stepanenko

Research topics

The team of the Laser Centre is focused on constructing novel sources for ultrafast light pulses generation and studying interactions of such pulses with condensed matter. In recent years, we have been focused on building all-fiber ultrafast lasers and high peak power (terawatt) lasers. These custom made light sources have been often used in our second main research task – ultrafast laser spectroscopy. We study intermolecular interactions and chemical reactions in solutions with use techniques such as femtosecond stimulated Raman scattering (FSRS), transient absorption in visible (TA) and infrared (fs-IR) ranges and fluorescence upconversion (FLUP).

Members

  • dr inż. Katarzyna Krupa 
  • dr Michał Nejbauer 
  • dr inż. Marcin Pastorczak 
  • dr Agnieszka Jamrozik
  • mgr Cassia Corso Silva
  • mgr inż. Mateusz Pielach

Publications

2021

Szymborski, T., Stepanenko, Y., Niciński, K., Piecyk, P., Berus, S. M., Adamczyk-Popławska, M., & Kamińska, A. Ultrasensitive SERS platform made via femtosecond laser micromachining for biomedical applications. Journal of Materials Research and Technology, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jmrt.2021.03.083

Krupa, K., Kardas, T., & Stepanenko, Y.
Breathing dynamics in an ultrafast all-PM Yb-doped fiber laser.
In D. R. Solli, G. Herink, & S. Bielawski (Eds.), Real-time Measurements, Rogue Phenomena, and Single-Shot Applications VI. SPIE. https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2581478

Pielach, M., Piechal, B., Szczepanek, J., Kabacinski, P., & Stepanenko, Y.
12 nJ, 250 fs pulses from an all-PM-fiber laser oscillator.
In M. N. Zervas & C. Jauregui-Misas (Eds.), Fiber Lasers XVIII: Technology and Systems, https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2581702

Jauberteau, R., Wehbi, S., Mansuryan, T., Krupa, K., Baronio, F., Wetzel, B., Tonello, A., Wabnitz, S., & Couderc, V.
Boosting and Taming Wave Breakup in Second Harmonic Generation.
Frontiers in Physics, https://doi.org/10.3389/fphy.2021.640025

Baudin, K., Fusaro, A., Garnier, J., Berti, N., Krupa, K., Carusotto, I., Rica, S., Millot, G., & Picozzi, A.
Energy and wave-action flows underlying Rayleigh-Jeans thermalization of optical waves propagating in a multimode fiber.
EPL (Europhysics Letters), https://doi.org/10.1209/0295-5075/134/14001

Tonello, A., Granger, G., Krupa, K., Fabert, M., Février, S., Wabnitz, S., Mansuryan, T., Couderc, V., & Leventoux, Y.

Frequency-resolved spatial beam mapping in multimode fibers: application to mid-infrared supercontinuum generation.

Optics Letters, https://doi.org/10.1364/OL.428623

Santos, G. H. dos, Salles, D. C., Damaceno, M. G., Menezes, B. T., Corso, C., Martinelli, M., Ribeiro, P. H. S., & Araújo, R. M. de.
Decomposing Spatial Mode Superpositions with a Triangular Optical Cavity.
Physical Review Applied, https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevApplied.16.034008

Moussa, N. O., Mansuryan, T., Hage, C.-H., Fabert, M., Krupa, K., Tonello, A., Ferraro, M., Leggio, L., Zitelli, M., Mangini, F., Niang, A., Millot, G., Papi, M., Wabnitz, S., & Couderc, V.
Spatiotemporal beam self-cleaning for high-resolution nonlinear fluorescence imaging with multimode fiber.
Scientific Reports, https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-021-96753-2

Pastorczak, M., Nejbauer, M., Shinyashiki, N., Takatsuka, M., Angulo, G., Stepanenko, Y., & Radzewicz, C.
First events in the coil-to-globule transition of PVME in water: an ultrafast temperature jump – time-resolved elastic light scattering study.
Journal of Colloid and Interface Science, https://doi.org/10.1016/J.JCIS.2021.10.158

2022

Pszona, M., Gawinkowski, S., Jäger, R., Kamińska, I., & Waluk, J.
Influence of bulky substituents on single-molecule SERS sensitivity.
The Journal of Chemical Physics,  https://doi.org/10.1063/5.0074840

Pielach, M., Szczepanek, J., Krupa, K., Stepanenko, Y.
Net anomalous dispersion all-PM Yb-doped fiber laser producing high energy sub-100 fs pulses.
Proc. SPIE PC11981, Fiber Lasers XIX: Technology and Systems, https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2606821

Dobkowski, J., Kijak, M., Gawinkowski, S., Karpiuk, E., Pietrzak, M., Sazanovich, I. V., & Waluk, J.
Solving the Puzzle of Unusual Excited-State Proton Transfer in 2,5-Bis(6-methyl-2-benzoxazolyl)phenol.
The Journal of Physical Chemistry A,  https://doi.org/10.1021/ACS.JPCA.1C10030

Rogalski, M., Pielach, M., Cicone, A., Zdańkowski, P., Stanaszek, L., Drela, K., Patorski, K., Lukomska, B., & Trusiak, M.
Tailoring 2D fast iterative filtering algorithm for low-contrast optical fringe pattern preprocessing.
Optics and Lasers in Engineering,  https://doi.org/10.1016/J.OPTLASENG.2022.107069

Wehbi, S., Wehbi, S., Mansuryan, T., Krupa, K., Fabert, M., Tonello, A., Zitelli, M., Ferraro, M., Mangini, F., Mangini, F., Sun, Y., Vergnole, S., Kano, H., Wabnitz, S., & Couderc, V.
Continuous spatial self-cleaning in GRIN multimode fiber for self-referenced multiplex CARS imaging.
Optics Express, https://doi.org/10.1364/OE.452384

Pielach, M., Szczepanek, J., Krupa, K., & Stepanenko, Y.
Studying the Operation of an All-PM Yb-Doped Fiber Laser Oscillator at Negative and Positive Net Cavity Dispersion.
IEEE Access, https://doi.org/10.1109/ACCESS.2022.3170921

Krupa, K., Kardaś, T. M. K., & Stepanenko, Y.
Real-Time Observation of Double-Hopf Bifurcation in an Ultrafast All-PM Fiber Laser.
Laser & Photonics Reviews, https://doi.org/10.1002/LPOR.202100646

Cristiani, I., Lacava, C., Rademacher, et al.
Roadmap on multimode photonics.
Journal of Optics, https://doi.org/10.1088/2040-8986/AC7A48

Jima, M. A., Jima, M. A., Tonello, A., Niang, A., Niang, A., Mansuryan, T., Krupa, K., Modotto, D., Cucinotta, A., Couderc, V., Wabnitz, S., & Wabnitz, S.
Numerical analysis of beam self-cleaning in multimode fiber amplifiers.
J. Opt. Soc. Am. B., https://doi.org/10.1364/JOSAB.463473

Jauberteau, R., Wehbi, S., Mansuryan, T., Tonello, A., Baronio, F., Krupa, K., Wetzel, B., Wabnitz, S., & Couderc, V.
Twin spotlight beam generation in quadratic crystals.
Communications Physics, https://doi.org/10.1038/s42005-022-00976-2

Gawinkowski, S., & Prakash, O.
Searching for correlations between geometric and spectroscopic parameters of intramolecular hydrogen bonds in porphyrin-like macrocycles.
Physical Chemistry Chemical Physics, https://doi.org/10.1039/D2CP01195F

Stefaniuk, A., Gawinkowski, S., Golec, B., Gorski, A., Szutkowski, K., Waluk, J., & Poznański, J.
Isotope effects observed in diluted D2O/H2O mixtures identify HOD-induced low-density structures in D2O but not H2O.
Scientific Reports, https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-022-23551-9

Berus, S. M., Adamczyk-Popławska, M., Goździk, K., Przedpełska, G., Szymborski, T. R., Stepanenko, Y., & Kamińska, A.
SERS-PLSR Analysis of Vaginal Microflora: Towards the Spectral Library of Microorganisms.
International Journal of Molecular Sciences, https://doi.org/10.3390/IJMS232012576

2023

Ferraro, M., Mangini, F., Leventoux, Y., Tonello, A., Zitelli, M., Mansuryan, T., Sun, Y., Fevrier, S., Krupa, K., Kharenko, D., Wabnitz, S., & Couderc, V.
Multimode Optical Fiber Beam-By-Beam Cleanup.
Journal of Lightwave Technology, https://doi.org/10.1109/JLT.2023.3239385

Baudin, K., Garnier, J., Fusaro, A., Berti, N., Michel, C., Krupa, K., Millot, G., & Picozzi, A.
Observation of Light Thermalization to Negative-Temperature Rayleigh-Jeans Equilibrium States in Multimode Optical Fibers.
Physical Review Letters, https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevLett.130.063801

Krupa, K., Krupa, K., Parriaux, A., Parriaux, A., Millot, G., Millot, G., & Fanjoux, G.
Self-similarity in transient stimulated Raman scattering in CO2-filled hollow-core fiber.
Journal of the Optical Society of America B, https://doi.org/10.1364/JOSAB.471348

Pielach, M., Jamrozik, A., Krupa, K., & Stepanenko, Y.
All-polarization-maintaining Yb-doped fiber oscillator with a hybrid ring-linear cavity of net anomalous dispersion.
Proc. SPIE 12400, Fiber Lasers XX: Technology and Systems, https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2648440

Maczugowska, P., Zawadzka, P., Hałagan, K., Pastorczak, M., Sadlej, J., & Kozanecki, M.
Water clusters in liquid organic matrices of different polarity.
Journal of Molecular Liquids,  https://doi.org/10.1016/J.MOLLIQ.2023.121580

Karpate, T., Stępniewski, G., Stępniewski, G., Kardaś, T., Pysz, D., Kasztalanic, R., Kasztalanic, R., Stepanenko, Y., Buczyński, R., Buczyński, R., Krupa, K., & Klimczak, M.
Quasi-periodic spectro-temporal pulse breathing in a femtosecond-pumped tellurite graded-index multimode fiber.
Optics Express, https://doi.org/10.1364/OE.480398