The Quantum Optics Centre will be a modern research centre dealing with the quantum optics and the natural and biomedical science applications in Poland. The centre’s seat, a 2 000 square metre building, is to be located on the premises of the Toruń Institute of Physics. While the overall investment costs will amount to 25 million PLN, 22 million PLN is to be subsidized from EU funds. Professor Włodzimierz Jaskólski of the Institute of Physics in Toruń claims that - The Centre will help improve the quality of research in the field of quantum optics to meet the European standards, e.g. research done in one of the hi-tech quantum photonics laboratories will help improve ways of information storage in optic systems and may influence the information cryptography development to facilitate data transition. The research aims at identifying and eliminating problems hampering the quantum computer construction.
The construction is planed to start at the beginning of June 2008 and is scheduled to be finished by the end of 2010. The laboratories are planed to be equipped in 2011. (PM Group)