Integrated Photonics · Silicon Nitride PICs
Photonics Design Engineer · Doctoral Researcher in Integrated Photonics
I design, simulate, and experimentally validate fabrication-tolerant silicon-nitride photonic integrated circuits for visible-wavelength applications — from directional couplers and MMI splitters to grating emitters and optical phased arrays.
About
I am a Doctoral Researcher in Integrated Photonics at RWTH Aachen University, where I work on silicon-nitride photonic integrated circuits (PICs) for visible wavelengths. My work runs the full development cycle — from device design and rigorous simulation to mask layout, fabrication-tolerant optimization, and hands-on experimental characterization.
My core devices include 2×3 directional couplers, 1×2 MMI splitters, compact grating emitters, and thermo-optic phase shifters, built with Lumerical MODE/FDTD/EME workflows and validated through edge- and fiber-coupling experiments, cut-back loss extraction, and far-field measurement. I automate design sweeps and measurement pipelines in Python and LabVIEW.
I am completing my PhD in January 2026 and looking for an industry R&D role as a Photonics Design Engineer, while remaining open to research collaboration. If you're building the next generation of photonic systems, I'd love to talk.
Research & Expertise
End-to-end capability across photonic device design, simulation, layout, and experimental characterization.
Selected Work
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Mid-tap power extraction with near-zero crosstalk, designed for crossbar optical phased arrays.
Optimized for low imbalance and robust fabrication tolerance across process variation.
Gaussian far-field profile that improves the fill factor of optical phased-array apertures.
Two-dimensional beam steering based on nonlinear beam mixing.
Optics Letters, 2022 →Experience
RWTH Aachen University, Germany
Publications
Full list on ResearchGate.
Optical phased array with 2D beam steering based on nonlinear beam mixing.
Optics Letters, 47(16), 3996–3999, 2022. DOI: 10.1364/OL.463710
2×3 waveguide coupler and compact grating emitter for crossbar phased arrays.
Manuscript under publication process.
Focusing optical phased array for tissue interrogation with improved side-lobe suppression.
Biomedical Optics Express, 17(1), 12–37, 2025.
Focusing optical phased array for optically enabled probing of the retina.
ECIO 2024 Proceedings, Aachen, Germany.
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In the Lab & Beyond
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Contact
Open to industry R&D roles as a Photonics Design Engineer and to research collaboration. The fastest way to reach me is email.