QUANTUM SPACE · ESA BIC POLAND
Security you can
prove — not just promise.
empiriQa builds and independently verifies Quantum Key Distribution — the one defense grounded in the laws of physics, for the organizations that cannot afford to assume.
/01 Why now
We exist to neutralize the single greatest future risk to global data security — the quantum computer.
Harvest now
Encrypted traffic is being captured today, stored against the day it can be broken. The data you protect now is the data exposed later.
Decrypt later
Classical key exchange — RSA, ECC — collapses under Shor's algorithm the moment a cryptographically-relevant quantum computer exists.
The countermeasure
Quantum Key Distribution secures the key with physics, not difficulty. Eavesdropping doesn't just become hard — it changes the system, and it shows.
/02 Who we are
Not a startup with a science slide. A laboratory that went to the field.
empiriQa is a deep-tech spin-off of the quantum-optics lab at Nicolaus Copernicus University in Toruń — commercialising more than twenty years of research into quantum-secure communication, and backed by the European Space Agency's business incubator.
The origin
Twenty years inside a university quantum-optics lab — the unglamorous decades of physics that mass-market security skips.
The bridge
Support from the European Space Agency's incubator carried that science across the gap between the bench and mission-critical deployment.
Today
One company with three integrated roles and an independent V&V centre — physics turned into fielded, certified systems.
Our work is eliminating the implementation flaws — the backdoors — that compromise quantum security in the real world. Where marketing hype ends, Technical Truth begins: we don't call anything secure until it's measured, tested and proven. And this is what we stand for.
20+
Years of QKD research
3 roles
assess · build · verify
5+
Sectors served
∞
Superposition states
Our Partners
/03 What we offer
One company, three roles in the quantum stack.
From assessing your readiness for the quantum era, to building the hardware, to independently verifying it holds — we cover the whole chain.
Assess
Readiness & architecture
We evaluate your readiness for the quantum era, identify security and implementation risks, and help define quantum-resilient communication architectures.
Build
Technology Provider
We design and develop high-efficiency entangled-photon sources, optical ground station technologies and critical components for secure terrestrial and satellite-to-ground quantum communication.
Verify
Independent V&V Centre
We provide independent Verification & Validation of QKD systems and quantum hardware — detecting the implementation flaws and side-channel vulnerabilities that compromise otherwise secure technology.
/04 Products
Hardware and software,
fielded and verified.
Software
SPA-QIN – Quantum Information Network Simulation Software
A Python-based tool for simulating Quantum Information Network (QIN) constellations that calculates optical loss budgets using realistic atmospheric models. About…
Hardware
Entangled Photon Pair Source
A configurable solution for research on quantum entanglement, quantum communication, and the development of new photonic technologies. It has been…
Hardware
Free-space Optical Communication
Horizontal Link provides the physical layer for a unidirectional optical communication channel. At the transmitter, a wavelength-division multiplexer combines the…
/05 Who we protect
Built for the organizations that can't afford to assume.
/06 What's new
Successes & events, straight from the lab.
Interview with our CEO
Our CEO, Michal Drogosz, was a guest on the #limesinferior at Radio WNET, where he discussed whether quantum technologies can become the…
Read moreAKCES NCBR is accelerating empiriQa!
We’ve recently joined the #SpaceTech acceleration program – and we’re glad to be on board. empiriQa comes out of over 20 years…
Read moreempiriQa X SatLab collaboration on PUCHACZ laser-module tests
Even if you don’t always see us in the lab photos, at empiriQa we’re very much in the loop – quietly tuning,…
Read more
Milestones, events and updates as they happen — scan the code, or find us at @empiriqa.
/07 Collaborate
Let's protect what matters.
Technology partnership, V&V engagement, or a quantum-resilience program — tell us what you're protecting and on what timeline.
Now hiring in Toruń