dr hab. inż. Łukasz Sterczewski

Email: lukasz.sterczewski@pwr.edu.pl

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Structure: Faculty of Electronics, Photonics and Microsystems (N) » Department of Field Theory, Electronic Circuits and Optoelectronics

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Associate professor, Principal Investigator of an ERC Starting Grant, "TeraERC: Chip-based room-temperature terahertz frequency comb spectrometers".

Janiszewskiego 11/17,
50-372 Wrocław, Poland
Bld. C-4 Office 236

Research interest

• photonics
• optical frequency combs
• semiconductor lasers (QCL, ICL, QW)
• laser spectroscopy
• signal processing
• fourier transform spectroscopy
• hyperspectral imaging

Group website: https://thz.pwr.edu.pl/

Personal website: https://sterczewski.com/

Selected publications

2025

• H. Tian, and L. A. Sterczewski, "Impact of optical frequency comb noise on free-running dual-comb spectroscopy", Optics Express 33, 5075-5087 (2025). (PDF)
• S. A. Lukasik, and L. A. Sterczewski, "Hidden Far-Field Beam Profile Artifacts in Wide-Angle Radiometric Goniometry", Optics Express 33, 39828-39841 (2025). (PDF)
• A. F. Chlebowski, J. Mnich, L. A. Sterczewski, and J. Sotor, "Sensitive and accurate femtosecond pulse characterization via two-photon absorption in Fabry-Pérot laser diodes", arXiv:2507.03978, (2025). (arXiv)

2024

• L. A. Sterczewski, and M. Bagheri, "Sub-nominal Resolution Fourier Transform Spectrometry with Chip-Based Combs," Laser & Photonics Reviews 18, 2300724 (2024). (PDF)
• J. Hayden, M. Geiser, M. Gianella, R. Horvath, A. Hugi, L. Sterczewski, and M. Mangold, "Mid-Infrared Dual-Comb Spectroscopy with Quantum Cascade Lasers," APL Photonics 9, 031101, (2024). (PDF).
• L. A. Sterczewski, J. Mnich, and J. Sotor, "Broadband THz wave generation and detection in organic crystal PNPA at MHz repetition rates," Advanced Physics Research , 2400105 (2024). (PDF)
• J. Mnich, J. Kunsch, M. Budden, T. Gebert, M. Schossig, J. Sotor, and L. A. Sterczewski, "Ultra-broadband room-temperature Fourier transform spectrometer with watt-level power consumption", Optics Express 32, 45801-45815 (2024). (PDF)

2023

• L. A. Sterczewski, and J. Sotor, "Two-photon imaging of soliton dynamics," Nature Communications 14, 3339 (2023).(PDF)
• L. A. Sterczewski, M. Fradet, C. Frez, S. Forouhar, and M. Bagheri, "Battery-operated mid-infrared diode laser frequency combs," Laser & Photonics Reviews 17, 2200224 (2023). (PDF) (ArXiv)

2022

• L. A. Sterczewski*, T.-L. Chen*, D. C. Ober, C. R. Markus, C. L. Canedy, I. Vurgaftman, C. Frez, J. R. Meyer, M. Okumura, and M. Bagheri, "Cavity-enhanced Vernier spectroscopy with a chip-scale mid-infrared frequency comb," ACS Photonics 9, 994–1001 (2022). (PDF), (ACS)

2021

• M. Kowalczyk, L. A. Sterczewski, X. Zhang, V. Petrov, Z. Wang, and J. Sotor, "Dual-comb femtosecond solid-state laser with inherent polarization-multiplexing," Laser & Photonics Reviews 15, 2000441 (2021). (PDF)
• L. A. Sterczewski M. Bagheri, C. Frez, C. L. Canedy, I. Vurgaftman, M. Kim, C. S. Kim, C. D. Merritt, W. W. Bewley and J. R. Meyer, "Interband cascade laser frequency combs (invited review)," Journal of Physics Photonics 3, 042003 (2021). (PDF)

2020

• L. A. Sterczewski, M. Bagheri, C. Frez, C. L. Canedy, I. Vurgaftman, and J. R. Meyer, "Mid-infrared dual-comb spectroscopy with room-temperature bi-functional interband cascade lasers and detectors," Applied Physics Letters 116, 141102 (2020) [Editor's pick]. (PDF)
• L. A. Sterczewski^*, J. Westberg^*, Y. Yang, D. Burghoff, J. Reno, Q. Hu, and G. Wysocki, "Terahertz spectroscopy of gas mixtures with dual quantum cascade laser frequency combs," ACS Photonics 7, 1082-1087 (2020). (PDF)
• L. A. Sterczewski, C. Frez, S. Forouhar, D. Burghoff, and M. Bagheri, "Frequency-modulated diode laser frequency combs at 2 μm wavelength," APL Photonics 5, 076111 (2020) [Featured article] [Journal cover article]. (PDF)

2019

• L. A. Sterczewski^*, J. Westberg^*, Y. Yang, D. Burghoff, J. Reno, Q. Hu, and G. Wysocki, "Terahertz hyperspectral imaging with dual chip-scale combs," Optica, 6, 766-771 (2019). (PDF)
• L. A. Sterczewski^*, J. Westberg^*, and G. Wysocki, "Computational coherent averaging for free-running dual-comb spectroscopy," Optics Express 27, 23875-23893 (2019). (PDF)
• L. A. Sterczewski, A. Przewloka, W. Kaszub, and J. Sotor, "Computational Doppler-limited dual-comb spectroscopy with a free-running all-fiber laser," APL Photonics, 4, 116102 (2019) [Editor's pick]. (PDF)

Patents

• L. A. Sterczewski^*, J. Westberg^*, and G. Wysocki, "Fast computational phase and timing correction for multiheterodyne spectroscopy," US Patent 11,015,975 (2021), International Patent Application, WO 2018/213286 A1 (2018). (PDF)

Selected publications
1	Artykuł 2026 Adrian F Chlebowski Łukasz A Sterczewski Jarosław Sotor Pulse duration retrieval using a commercial laser diode with a monitor photodiode. Optics Express. 2026, vol. 34, nr 4, s. 6968-6977. ISSN: 1094-4087 Zasoby:DOISFX
2	Artykuł 2026 Qianqian Huang, Lilong Dai, Fan Wu, Sergey Sergeyev, Haochen Tian, Wei Chen, Łukasz A Sterczewski Chengbo Mou, Polarization dynamics in harmonic mode-locked vector soliton laser. Chaos, Solitons and Fractals. 2026, vol. 202, art. 117463, s. 1-13. ISSN: 0960-0779; 1873-2887 Zasoby:DOISFX
3	Artykuł 2026 Adrian F Chlebowski Jakub Mnich Łukasz A Sterczewski Jarosław Sotor Sensitive and accurate femtosecond pulse characterization via two-photon absorption in Fabry-Pérot laser diodes. Measurement (London). 2026, vol. 258, pt. C, art. 119259, s. 1-11. ISSN: 0263-2241; 1873-412X Zasoby:DOISFX
4	Komunikat konferencyjny 2025 Adrian F Chlebowski Łukasz A Sterczewski Jarosław Sotor Simultaneous linear and nonlinear optical autocorrelation measurement with Fabry-Pérot laser diodes. W: 2025 Conference on Lasers and Electro-Optics Europe & European Quantum Electronics Conference (CLEO/Europe-EQEC) : Munich, Germany, 23-27 June 2025. [B.m.] : IEEE, cop. 2025. s. 1-1. ISBN: 979-8-3315-1252-1; 979-8-3315-1253-8 Zasoby:DOI
5	Artykuł 2025 Łukasz A Sterczewski Sara Łukasik, Hidden far-field beam profile artifacts in wide-angle radiometric goniometry. Optics Express. 2025, vol. 33, nr 19, s. 39828-39841. ISSN: 1094-4087 Zasoby:DOISFX
6	Referat konferencyjny 2025 Adrian F Chlebowski Łukasz A Sterczewski Jarosław Sotor Sensitive and accurate interferometric pulse characterization via two-photon absorption in Fabry-Pérot laser diodes. W: Frontiers in Ultrafast Optics: Biomedical, Scientific, and Industrial Applications XXV, 26–29 January 2025, San Francisco, California, United States / eds. Peter R. Herman, Roberto Osellame, Adela Ben-Yakar. [Bellingham, Wash. : SPIE, cop. 2025]. s. 1-5. ISBN: 9781510684546; 9781510684553 Zasoby:DOIURLSFX
7	Artykuł 2025 Runmin Li, Haochen Tian, Yang Liu, Dengfeng Dong, Łukasz A Sterczewski Weihu Zhou, High-precision absolute distance measurement by cascaded synthetic wavelength interferometry using a single electro-optic frequency comb. Optics Express. 2025, vol. 33, nr 5, s. 10528-10537. ISSN: 1094-4087 Zasoby:DOISFX
8	Artykuł 2025 Tzu-Ling Chen, Charles R Markus, Douglas C Ober, Łukasz A Sterczewski Yi-Jan Huang, Michael T Lisano, Chadwick L Canedy, Igor Vurgaftman, Clifford Frez, Jerry R Meyer, Mahmood Bagheri, Mitchio Okumura, Direct frequency comb cavity ring-down spectroscopy using Vernier filtering. Journal of Physical Chemistry A. 2025, vol. 129, nr 5, s. 1452-1458. ISSN: 1089-5639; 1520-5215 Zasoby:DOISFX
9	Artykuł 2025 Haochen Tian, Łukasz A Sterczewski Impact of optical frequency comb noise on free-running dual-comb spectroscopy. Optics Express. 2025, vol. 33, nr 3, s. 5075-5087. ISSN: 1094-4087 Zasoby:DOIURLSFX
10	Artykuł 2025 Łukasz A Sterczewski Jakub Mnich Jarosław Sotor Broadband THz wave generation and detection in organic crystal PNPA at MHz repetition rates. Advanced Physics Research. 2025, vol. 4, nr 2, art. 2400105, s. 1-9. ISSN: 2751-1200 Zasoby:DOIURLSFX

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