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Ayda Lotfi Hayaei

Integrated Photonics · Photonic Crystals & Sensing · Computational Design

M.Sc. graduate in Electrical Engineering – Micro and Nano Electronic Devices, with research experience in computational photonics, photonic-crystal device design and sensing, and PWE/FDTD simulation. Sole author of a peer-reviewed article on photonic-crystal sensing.

Seeking PhD research opportunities in integrated photonics, photonic sensing, and computational design.

Schematic resonance-shift plot, explicitly not research data
Schematic of the selected SOI add-drop microring designSOI Microring Resonator
Portrait of Ayda Lotfi Hayaei
M.Sc.Electrical EngineeringMicro and Nano Electronic Devices
Research FocusIntegrated PhotonicsPhotonic Sensors
1Peer-Reviewed ArticleOptical and Quantum Electronics
1Open-Source ProjectLumerical · Python
Decorative computational-photonics wave visualization; not simulation data
Research Focus

Computational Integrated Photonics

Integrated photonic devices and circuits for sensing, spectroscopy, computational design, and robust optimization.

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Schematic of the SOI add-drop microring project; not to scale
Selected Project

SOI Microring Resonator

Reproducible computational workflow using Ansys Lumerical MODE/varFDTD and Python.

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Mathematically regular 21 by 23 triangular photonic-crystal lattice with hole radius r equals 0.33a
Publication

Photonic-Crystal Pressure Sensing

Design, simulation, and optimization of a polymer-based photonic-crystal pressure sensor.

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Latest publication

Design, simulation, and optimization of a polymer-based photonic crystal pressure sensorOptical and Quantum Electronics 56(4), Art. no. 654 (2024)doi.org/10.1007/s11082-024-06337-3 ↗

Tools & Methods

RSoftLumericalCOMSOLMATLABPythonFDTDPWEParameter SweepsGeometry OptimizationData Analysis

Currently exploring

  • Tunable & Reconfigurable PICs
  • Inverse Design & ML
  • Lab-on-Chip Biosensing