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Very careful wording: "engaging with." That phrase could mean absolutely anything from sharing an elevator ride every day with transciever manufacturer execs to being in actual contract discussions. But, just like everything else this company puts out, it's just vague enough to give the Lebby fan base a reason to hope.
What a mess of a company.
Just a regurgitation of past Qs. More dilution is coming, out of necessity. No closer to generating meaningful revenue than we were five years ago.
This company has made continual shareholder disappointment an art form.
Why on earth would anyone short this stock? It's all in the Q. There is nothing concrete on the horizon suggesting that this company will even survive. You can't dilute your way into profitability.
One day LWLG will be a business school case study on how to not run a company.
Lebby needs to be relieved of his CEO and BOD chair duties.
Isn't Lightmatter winning that slice of the pie?
Please don't tell me another benzinga interview coming
Unfortunately, no one is paying us anything for our phenomenal achievements.
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We all know the 10 q is always a non event . We need news ! Nn
The company’s (LWLG) innovative efforts were recognized at ECOC 2024, where Lightwave Logic received the Industry Award for Most Innovative Hybrid PIC/Optical Integration Platform. This accolade, bestowed by a committee of industry peers, marks the second consecutive year the company has won this award, reflecting the market’s recognition of their technological advancements.
Lightwave Logic Showcases Innovative Optical Technology at ECOC 2024, Wins Industry Award
October 15, 2024
Lightwave Logic, Inc. (NASDAQ: LWLG), a Colorado-based technology company specializing in electro-optic (EO) polymers, made a significant impact at the 2024 European Conference on Optical Communications (ECOC) in Frankfurt, Germany. The company’s participation in this prestigious event underscores the growing importance of innovative solutions to address the escalating demands on network infrastructure.
As data consumption continues to surge due to streaming services, online gaming, and AI applications, network congestion has become a critical issue. Lightwave Logic’s EO polymers offer a promising solution, potentially increasing data transmission speeds by three times while reducing power consumption by a factor of ten compared to existing technologies.
During the conference, CEO Dr. Michael Lebby presented the company’s latest advancements in polymer modulators, demonstrating performance for 200 Gbps PAM4 lanes and initial results at 400 Gbps PAM4 lanes. This technology shows promise for future 800 Gbps lanes, addressing the industry’s need for increased modulation speed and reduced power consumption in optical network equipment.
Lightwave Logic’s collaboration with Polariton Technologies yielded impressive results, showcasing a packaged device with over 110 GHz super high bandwidth packaged electro-optic polymer modulators. This partnership demonstrates the potential for extending silicon photonics performance using plasmonics and EO polymers, with implications for mass commercialization using large silicon foundries.
The company’s innovative efforts were recognized at ECOC 2024, where Lightwave Logic received the Industry Award for Most Innovative Hybrid PIC/Optical Integration Platform. This accolade, bestowed by a committee of industry peers, marks the second consecutive year the company has won this award, reflecting the market’s recognition of their technological advancements.
Lightwave Logic’s presence at ECOC and its recent award come amid ongoing discussions with original equipment manufacturers and tier-1 multinational corporations regarding designs, material supplies, and licensing agreements for its EO polymer materials. The company has also entered into a supply-chain collaboration with Advanced Micro Foundry’s Silicon Photonics platform, aiming to accelerate the development of state-of-the-art silicon photonics modulators.
With $29 million in cash reported at the end of the second quarter, Lightwave Logic is well-positioned to finance operations through 2025. This financial stability, combined with its technological advancements and industry recognition, places the company at the forefront of addressing the growing challenges in network infrastructure as AI and machine learning continue to drive demand for higher-speed data transmission.
As data centers worldwide respond to the increasing need for faster and more efficient data transmission, Lightwave Logic’s EO polymer technology offers a potential solution to support the burgeoning demands of artificial intelligence, machine learning, and other cloud-based services. The company’s progress and recognition at ECOC 2024 signal a promising direction for the future of optical communications and data center infrastructure.
https://www.citybuzz.co/2024/10/15/lightwave-logic-showcases-innovative-optical-technology-at-ecoc-2024-wins-industry-award/
More of the same crap , standing in place
Grifter lebby, the DILUTIONIST...eom
NOT GOOD, NOTHING, I MEAN NOTHING to show for ALL THAT DILUTION..
What are the chances that a new chairman of the SEC may resolve the problem of the naked shorting?
Device processing work for"A" customer...wheeeeew, lebby NEEDS to be taken to the wood shed.
$22,916.00 in sales...OH, OH, OH, GRIFTER, DILLUTIONIST lebby HAS GOT TO GO...
on Tier 1 engagements
We are currently engaging with Tier 1 transceiver component manufacturers who since the demonstration of 200Gbps at less than 1V, and more recently less than 0.5V, have shown increased interest in our polymer platform. These manufacturers are datacenter based and are planning to upgrade their product portfolio with faster and lower power modulators and are based in USA, Europe as well as the Far East. Our polymer modulators represent a route that these transceiver manufacturers can upgrade their silicon photonics platform to datacenter performance levels that are being driven in part by G-AI.
We are actively engaged with test equipment manufacturers of the most advanced test equipment to test our state-of-the-art polymer devices. We continue to engage with multiple industry bodies to promote our roadmap. We continue to fine tune our business model with target markets, customers, and technical specifications. Our business model includes the licensing of our strong IP and Patent portfolio, as well as technology transfer to entities such as foundries. Discussions with prospective customers are validating that our modulators are ideally suited for the datacenter and telecommunications markets that are over 10km in length. Details and feedback of what these prospective customers are seeking from a prototype are delivered to our technical team. (p38)
https://www.sec.gov/ix?doc=/Archives/edgar/data/1325964/000107997324001503/lwlg_10q-093024.htm
2050. Do you realize how long away that is? The Federal Government can't even agree on what happened last month.
There is no way that the NRA is going to green light an old design reactor restart in a population dense region of the country.
10-Q for 3rd Quarter is out, here's a link
https://www.sec.gov/ix?doc=/Archives/edgar/data/1325964/000107997324001503/lwlg_10q-093024.htm
Cash for Operations good through February 2026 (p9)
Lab Equipment up from 9M to 11M (p11)
on Foundries from MD&A, We have advanced and matured our interactions with our foundry partners and we continue to receive working modulator chips for prototyping. Silicon-based foundries are large semiconductor fabrication plants developed for the electronics IC business, that are now engaging with silicon photonics to increase their wafer throughput. Partnering with silicon-based foundries not only demonstrates that our polymer technology can be transferred into standard production lines using standard equipment, it also allows us to efficiently utilize our capital. The foundry partnerships will allow us to scale our high-performance polymer optical engines quickly and efficiently. We have now received silicon wafers that range up to 200mm in diameter, which aligns well with foundry manufacturing. Using 200mm silicon wafers, we showed packaged polymer modulators operating with open (clean) eye diagrams at 100GBaud PAM4 (or 200Gbps PAM4) at voltage drive levels at 1V at the 2024 Optical Fiber Conference in San Diego, California in March 2024 (“OFC 2024"). OFC is a leading international conference bringing together the complete value chain of fiber communications, datacentric, and telecommunications industrial players. We also showed polymer modulators with voltage drive levels that were below 1V. Driving voltage levels of around 1V is important as it allows our polymer modulators to be driven directly from CMOS ICs (as opposed to dedicated driver integrated circuit chips). This performance is ideal to enable 4 lanes at 200Gbps per lane pluggable transceivers that can operate at an aggregate data rate of 800Gbps. Since the invited talk at OFC 2024, several Tier 1 pluggable transceiver companies have both reviewed our technical results and viewed operating packaged polymer slot modulators at 200Gbps PAM4 with drive voltages at 1V. Further, we have recently demonstrated drive levels below 0.5V which represents the highest performance commercially designed Electro-Optic polymer modulators to date. The impact of driving optical modulators significantly below 1V is significant not only from the impact of directly driving modulators from electronic ICs to save driver costs, but more importantly, savings in power consumption for the module system, which is a key issue for datacenter operators today. (p20)
On Polymer Photonic Integrated Circuits from MD&A, Our Company also designs its own proprietary Photonic Integrated Circuits (otherwise termed a polymer PIC). A polymer PIC is a photonic device that integrates several photonic functions on a single chip. We believe that our technology can enable an ultra-miniaturization footprint that is needed to increase the number of photonic functions residing on a semiconductor chip. We see this creating a progression like what was seen in the computer integrated circuits, commonly referred to as Moore’s Law. One type of integration is to combine several instances of the same photonic functions such as a plurality of modulators to create a multi-lane polymer PIC. The number of lanes can be varied depending on application. For example, the number of photonic components could increase by a factor of 4, 8, or 16. Another type of integration is to combine different types of devices including from different technology bases such as the combination of a semiconductor laser with a polymer modulator. Our P2IC™ platform encompasses both these types of architecture. (p21)
on Industry issues of scaling, The key issues facing the fiber-optic communications industry are the economic progress and scalability of any PIC based technological platform. Our polymer platform is unique in that it is truly scalable and is expected to become a high-performance engine for transceiver modules. Scalable means being able to scale up for high-speed data rates, while simultaneously being able to scale down in cost, and lower power consumption. This allows a competitive cost per data rate or cost per Gbps metric to be achieved.
Fiber optic datacenter and high-performance computing customers want to achieve the metric of $1/Gbps @ 800Gbps (this essentially means a single mode fiber optic link that has a total cost of $800 and operates with a data rate of 800Gbps). Equally importantly, the datacenter industry would like to reduce the power consumption of optical ports for 400Gbps, 800Gbps, etc., significantly. As industry tries to match this target, it needs scalable PIC platforms to achieve this goal, of which our polymer platform is uniquely suited.
An article by Dr. Michael Lebby that was recently published in broadband communities (BBC) magazine in early February 2023 discusses the virtues of polymer-based technologies as part of an industry technology roadmap. The article is entitled ‘The internet is the brick wall Nostradamus did not see coming.” In this article cost/performance metrics are discussed that show the trend to higher and higher data rates using PIC platforms that include very high speed, low power modulator devices.
The article also shows that electro-optic polymers play an important role in PICs over the next decade as they can reduce or close the gap between customer expectations and technical performance through effective scaling increase of high performance with low cost for short distance transceiver optical links. (p25)
Can you translate that into English please.
With so many talks by economists, financial and business professionals big storms like depressions of the past is coming in 2025, timings for LWLG could be not right.
Even the current Administration recognizes that Nuclear Power will be needed to feed the Tech Industry's explosive apatite for reliable power.
"US Unveils Plan to Triple Nuclear Power By 2050 as Demand Soars"
https://financialpost.com/pmn/business-pmn/us-unveils-plan-to-triple-nuclear-power-by-2050-as-demand-soars?fbclid=IwY2xjawGgmnhleHRuA2FlbQIxMQABHToCcZEq_-Yt75B2_IdBtOKIwBXHPy5FylNONmhbRPIDPKA-ndbBK0ynLQ_aem_XbEnWt0nLKF7WihyaAEPdA
You spin coat a wafer, an atom or so thick, sure seems like a snap to me, once you have perfected it.
HO, HO, HO, MISGUIDER, grifter lebby has got to GO...
I wonder if Pinocchio and Mark Smith will be visiting the Belgians leading up to the holidays. This might be the year to go into hiding and come out from the rabbit hole in 2026. It seems Lebby has already disappeared from the planet earth.
Need to get rid of the word "snap" LOL. Still trying to believe Polariton is highly scalable.
Grifter lebby and marcinobi's DILUTION SOLUTION is DISGUSTING since they took ot a step further and MISGUIDED the timelines... F the Grifting lebby's of sf.
Because "scalability" is a snap, you make millions of, whatever, and as you need them, you take them "off the shelf"
It often doesn't mean anything on post-revenue stocks either 😆
That doesn´t mean anything on a pré-revenue stock fyi...
Perfect cup and handle formed on the 6mo charts
Thank You, Prototype_101
Whaaat? "Off the shelf" is HOW these GRIFTERS take our money and turn it into theirs....you are narrow minded pro.
the term "off the shelf" just means it was a generic MRR which means LWLG's technology can pretty much work with any device, and to some extent investors already knew from the world class results achieved with both SilOrix and Polariton in the past, this is HUGE confirmation to be added to what investors already knew form previous White Papers that LWLG's Polymers could fix the issues that Intel/Ayars have with commercializing their MRR's inclusing having individual heater IC's for each and every of there MANY MRR's since these are only running at 25Gbs
Simply can't hold water here ! Timber !!
The question I have is whether "Off the Shelf MRRs" implies scalable, or just the opposite? If anyone can answer that please help me along to understand. The term "off the shelf" gives me this nagging feeling that it means one at a time or piecemeal. If not, I feel that somehow Polariton needs to better emphasize the scalability of their solutions. Consider this post a humble request for help in my understanding as to scalability.
LWLG past managements passed up working on computings with polymers. It would have perfect timing now with silicon based AI chips all looking for higher computing capabilities.
That translates into this stock is garbage.
Tnx Polymer , buy, buy, buy!!!
This really sucks ! Now we will get the letter about potential customers and prototyping!!!
Has your supervisor once again instructed you to push shares into a short position and press the button? That way, I can also keep posting afterwards that a sale has taken place. Hahaha.😂
The company’s (LWLG) innovative efforts were recognized at ECOC 2024, where Lightwave Logic received the Industry Award for Most Innovative Hybrid PIC/Optical Integration Platform. This accolade, bestowed by a committee of industry peers, marks the second consecutive year the company has won this award, reflecting the market’s recognition of their technological advancements.
Lightwave Logic Showcases Innovative Optical Technology at ECOC 2024, Wins Industry Award
October 15, 2024
Lightwave Logic, Inc. (NASDAQ: LWLG), a Colorado-based technology company specializing in electro-optic (EO) polymers, made a significant impact at the 2024 European Conference on Optical Communications (ECOC) in Frankfurt, Germany. The company’s participation in this prestigious event underscores the growing importance of innovative solutions to address the escalating demands on network infrastructure.
As data consumption continues to surge due to streaming services, online gaming, and AI applications, network congestion has become a critical issue. Lightwave Logic’s EO polymers offer a promising solution, potentially increasing data transmission speeds by three times while reducing power consumption by a factor of ten compared to existing technologies.
During the conference, CEO Dr. Michael Lebby presented the company’s latest advancements in polymer modulators, demonstrating performance for 200 Gbps PAM4 lanes and initial results at 400 Gbps PAM4 lanes. This technology shows promise for future 800 Gbps lanes, addressing the industry’s need for increased modulation speed and reduced power consumption in optical network equipment.
Lightwave Logic’s collaboration with Polariton Technologies yielded impressive results, showcasing a packaged device with over 110 GHz super high bandwidth packaged electro-optic polymer modulators. This partnership demonstrates the potential for extending silicon photonics performance using plasmonics and EO polymers, with implications for mass commercialization using large silicon foundries.
The company’s innovative efforts were recognized at ECOC 2024, where Lightwave Logic received the Industry Award for Most Innovative Hybrid PIC/Optical Integration Platform. This accolade, bestowed by a committee of industry peers, marks the second consecutive year the company has won this award, reflecting the market’s recognition of their technological advancements.
Lightwave Logic’s presence at ECOC and its recent award come amid ongoing discussions with original equipment manufacturers and tier-1 multinational corporations regarding designs, material supplies, and licensing agreements for its EO polymer materials. The company has also entered into a supply-chain collaboration with Advanced Micro Foundry’s Silicon Photonics platform, aiming to accelerate the development of state-of-the-art silicon photonics modulators.
With $29 million in cash reported at the end of the second quarter, Lightwave Logic is well-positioned to finance operations through 2025. This financial stability, combined with its technological advancements and industry recognition, places the company at the forefront of addressing the growing challenges in network infrastructure as AI and machine learning continue to drive demand for higher-speed data transmission.
As data centers worldwide respond to the increasing need for faster and more efficient data transmission, Lightwave Logic’s EO polymer technology offers a potential solution to support the burgeoning demands of artificial intelligence, machine learning, and other cloud-based services. The company’s progress and recognition at ECOC 2024 signal a promising direction for the future of optical communications and data center infrastructure.
https://www.citybuzz.co/2024/10/15/lightwave-logic-showcases-innovative-optical-technology-at-ecoc-2024-wins-industry-award/
Huge sell off incoming .... Well done jeunke. Great game
Jeunke said, The Polariton/ Lightwave announcement implies sampling/ scalable production on 200 mm wafers from AMF. Please realize that this can be sold to transceiver companies, but also directly to hyperscalers designing their own solutions like Facebook, Amazon, Google. It forces the complete supply chain competition to think deep about their next moves. Think power consumption. Can transceiver companies go without the support of their biggest end users ? Check mate?
Yes EXACTLY Jeunke, the End Users like Google, Amazon, META, etc would love nothing more than to eliminate a layer of fat from the cost of all those Pluggable Transceivers in their Datacenters, they would love to cut out the Transceiver makers and build their own BETTER "white box" Transceiver, so YES, these Developments unveiled at ECOC certainly will light a fire underneath the dragging feet of the Tier 1 "middleman" makers of Transceivers to climb on board using the WORLD CLASS PERFORMANCE of LWLG Polymers or be left behind!!!
And to take this thought process one step further, investors also learned that Polariton achieved WORLD CLASS PERFORMANCE by enhancing "OFF THE SHELF MRR's" with LWLG Polymers!!! So for at least a couple of years I have been posting the FACT that LWLG Polymers could solve the inherent problems of Intel/Ayars who have long been working together on developing the MRR technology as the true Next-gen solution, if you haven't seen my previous posts follow back the thread here
Intel/Ayars/Tower - there are white papers proving that EOP can overcome the challenges of silicon MRR's which without the Polymer spin coating each require their own special Heater IC's
https://investorshub.advfn.com/boards/read_msg.aspx?message_id=174277053&txt2find=intel%2Fayar
Bottom line, what if LWLG withheld the SOLUTION to Intel/Ayars struggle of the last decade!!!! What if LWLG said FU to them and said we (LWLG/Polariton) will keep the now perfected MRR's technology all to ourselves!!! Ha!!! Long-term investors will recall the infamous LSS was presumed to be Intel over a decade ago when LWLG was a very poor Materials only development company!!
Well don't you worry Mr Intel, that's NOT how Lebby rolls!!! He has told the world he wants to see EVERYBODY using the LWLG Polymers!!! But keep in mind, Lebby also said he knows what he brings to the table, and at this ECOC I believe Lebby's negotiations poker hand just drew the Ace of Spades it needed to complete his Royal Flush!!
Gebeurtenissen op naam
Vandaag Q3 2024 Cijferpublicaties (schatting) Numbers Q3 TODAY: why i read hear and see NOTHING about Q3
23-09-2024 10:00 European Optical Communications Conference
12-08-2024 16:45 Q2 2024 Presentatie van de resultaten
12-08-2024 14:31 Q2 2024 Cijferpublicaties
Wow..experts?????
said President race way to close to call
End result is completely one sided victory
Bashers say all they want against lwlg they are also completely wrong.imo lwlg will have major contracts signed
GRIFTER SHORTS Must Return 22 MILLION Borrowed Shares!!!! Then tell me about the PPS, it will be higher than the $20 high set back in 2021!!! Tier 1 deals coming in 2024 Shorts hourglass sands of time are waning rapidly!!!
If Shorts think that 108 million Retail Longs are going to capitulate their shares NOW just because they are manipulating the price lower with their low volume high frequency manipulation games, they have an even more serious mental issue than their knuckleheaded continuous stream of bullshit posts here would indicate!! No, instead the 108 million Retail Longs that have been PERFECTLY STEADY here for the LAST 3 YEARS will only GROW in numbers as the manipulation games continue up until the day Lebby drops the first Tier 1 bomb on them, then like all good little cockroaches they will all be scrambling for the EXIT at the same time trying to escape their own annihilation!!
If the Institutions & Shorts are supposed the smart money then you better be buying LWLG hand over fist because these are EXACTLY who has been funding the LWLG Operating Budget these past 3 years, Lewrock put the data together showing that in the last 3 years Retail Investors have remained perfectly steady at 108 million shares ownership, LWLG has been 100% financed on the backs of Institutions & Shorts!!
WAKE ME WHEN 22 MILLION SHORTS HAVE COVERED BEFORE LEBBY INKS THE FIRST OF MANY TIER 1 DEALS!!!!
Lebby's TIMELINE remains the SAME since 2019 at least!!!! here is a link to the 2019 ASM presentation and Lebby at 27:27 shows the TIMELINE to Customer Acceptance and Ramp, albeit in 2019 Lebby had NOT put the DATES on his TIMELINE yet!!!
GRIFTER lebby's TIME-LINE MISGUIDENCES may be proven INTENTIONAL by an "EXPERT WITNESS" at some point. Won't that be a kick in his sf nutz? hahahabwahaha....
Incorrect Tedpeele. Do better research and concentrate on the facts. You’ll better serve the investor’s ROI.
down 3% on 86k total bullshit low volume high frequency manipulation games again!!! they can drip torture the Longs but they will NEVER get a volume capitulation!!! 22 million Shorts hourglass sands of time waning before Lebby inks first of many Tier 1 deals here in 2024!!
If the Institutions & Shorts are supposed the smart money then you better be buying LWLG hand over fist because these are EXACTLY who has been funding the LWLG Operating Budget these past 3 years, Lewrock put the data together showing that in the last 3 years Retail Investors have remained perfectly steady at 108 million shares ownership, LWLG has been 100% financed on the backs of Institutions & Shorts!!
Wake me up when 22 million Shorts covered before Lebby inks the first of many Tier 1 deals!!!
a top executive at LWLG just made these two bold statements!!
1) "We’re working with the biggest transceiver companies in the world"
2) "I am more than confident we’ll close on probably more than one Tier 1 deal this year."
https://www.reddit.com/r/LWLG/comments/1dad4n6/a_quick_message/
LWLG has MANY links to TOP TIER 1 COMPANIES under NDA's now numbering approximately 40 as of 2024 ASM!!!
https://investorshub.advfn.com/boards/read_msg.aspx?message_id=175019136
Lebby is still on track with his long-standing Timeline of Customer Acceptance and Ramp in 2024 (see Slide 38 from 2022 ASM) and has not backed down on his SAM/SOM guidance, Shorts are the LYING SCAMMERS period!!
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jeunke22: question: big NYT article today on China continuing to tighten rare earth minerals to the west. Focused on "dysprosium" can one of our perks substitute for dysprosium?
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The need for Lightwave Logic’s proprietary electro-optic polymers is more evident than at any prior point in history, with internet infrastructure coming under increasing strain due to increased online activity. For example, during the recent COVID-19 pandemic, leading platforms such as YouTube prevented high-definition (HD) streaming in Europe due to data throughput issues in existing internet infrastructure.
The Company’s current focus is on the datacom and telecommunications hardware supply chain for the 100 Gbps and 400 Gbps fiber optics communications market, seeking to integrate its proprietary materials into the devices that comprise key components in today’s internet infrastructure. Lightwave Logic’s unique value proposition, including ease of manufacture relative to traditional solutions, has driven several tier-1 and tier-2 potential strategic partners in the data and telecommunications markets to enter into non-disclosure agreements (NDAs) with Lightwave Logic to evaluate its technology for use in their devices, validating the demand for the Company’s solution in the marketplace. The Company expects to introduce its technology into the commercial marketplace in the near future.
Lightwave Logic is a wholly U.S.-based company with in-house materials synthesis, device/package design, wafer fabrication and testing capabilities at its Englewood, Colorado headquarters.
Having the modulator and integrated circuit development in-house has informed the materials development direction and vice versa. This vertically integrated business model enables a superior platform by aligning the design for manufacturability from materials to complex circuits with the following benefits:
Materials are called electro-optic when they enable interactions between applied electric fields and light passing through them. Notably, they change the refractive index seen by the light with minimum loss. The result is an instantaneous and accurate conversion of an electrical signal to an optical signal. Optical signals are better for transmission over distance: an increasingly useful feature as digital signal speeds are now reaching the GHz and THz ranges and the corresponding electrical transmission distances are shrinking to meters and centimeters.
EO polymers are intrinsically superior in speed and sensitivity to electric field to traditional electro-optic materials such as Lithium Niobate, Indium Phosphide and Silicon. They are engineered materials, made by embedding a variety of specially designed electro-optic chromophore molecules into a wide range of standard host polymers.
Chromophores are complex, large molecules, on a scale akin to drug molecules. They are hyperpolarizable, meaning their electron clouds are easily pulled into a different shape by the applied electric field, changing their optical properties such as index of refraction.
The material is poled to become electro-optic by applying a strong electric field along with heat. The hot material is relatively soft, allowing the chromophore molecules suspended in the host polymer to align in the same direction (poling). Cooling the poled material after the molecules are in place traps them in their active state even after the poling field is removed.
Although the electrons in the material respond to any applied electric field, they remain tightly bound to the molecule. The response to an applied signal is almost instantaneous response and recovery– like that of a tight spring– unlike materials that involve much slower macroscopic movement of free electrons.
Another key difference from traditional crystalline materials is the performance of EO polymers continues to improve as chemists explore the almost unlimited design space. Combinations of chromophores and host polymers can be tailored for specific applications.
In addition to innovating the EO polymer materials, Lightwave Logic takes its technology platform to the next level by developing ancillary materials and processes. These elements are brought together and demonstrated in advanced high-speed optical modulators.
The polymer is spun onto silicon wafers and standard microfabrication techniques are used to deposit and pattern metal electrodes and optical waveguides.
One well-known optical modulator device is the Mach-Zehnder interferometer. The light output is changed by changing the relative phase between the two arms. One common trick to double the effect for the same available drive voltage is to drive the two arms in opposite directions (push-pull mode). Polymers have an interesting advantage over most other electro-optic materials which are crystalline. The direction of polymer’s electro-optic activity is entirely determined by the direction of the applied poling field. By poling the two arms of the Mach-Zehnder in opposite directions, the resulting device automatically has push-pull operation with a single applied signal.
Once the modulator chip is made, it is packaged for mechanical protection and also to ensure signal quality for electrical and optical connections.
Below is a polymer optical modulator with >60 GHz bandwidth packaged with high-speed electrical connectors and optical pigtails.
Inspired by the remarkable record of integrated microelectronics, the opto-electronics industry has great interest in developing photonic integrated circuits (PICS). Photonics refers to devices that manipulate photons—that is, light—rather than electrons.
Even the best individual devices can be made more functional by integrating many together. Integration has many benefits, the most notable being dramatic improvements in size and cost. Yet, photonic integration has only recently come into the spotlight. The primary applications for photonics used to require stand-alone, high performance components such as used for long-haul telecom.
Now, photonic integration has suddenly come into the spotlight as electronic interconnects struggle to keep up with speed increases of electronic chips. Photonics is being looked at to replace electronics in already highly integrated applications such as chip interconnect. Co-packaging of electronics integrated circuits (ICs) with photonic interconnect, considered unlikely a few years ago, is now viewed by many as inevitable. However, this requirement poses new challenges that are acknowledged as difficult and that new technologies will be required to meet them.
P2IC™ (Polymer Photonic Integrated Circuits) are ideally positioned to be one of these new technologies. Lightwave Logic’s devices are made using conventional wafer-scale processing such as used for microelectronics and therefore similarly capable of being integrated. In addition, the polymer microfabrication processes are compatible with other materials platforms such as Silicon Photonics and Indium Phosphide which are now starting to become more integrated. In particular, the Silicon Photonics ecosystem has recently accepted that its roadmap will include adding more and more materials, each for their specific benefits. EO polymers’ speed and voltage advantages are attractive additions to this ecosystem.
A fiber link sends data from a transmitter to a receiver through an optical fiber cable. Lightwave Logic’s technology can be used to make a data modulator, a central function of the transmitter.
Datacenters and high-performance computing (HPC) are two market segments that demand the very highest speed optical fiber communications. The datacenter fiber communications segment includes applications ranging from connections inside hyperscale datacenters to fiber links between datacenter campuses.
Optical fiber communication is the infrastructure that supports internet content through its entire lifecycle, between businesses, consumers and datacenters. Behind the scenes, massive amounts of data move between computer processors inside datacenters (or inside supercomputers) as content is generated. In addition to these intra-datacenter links, there are also significant datacenter interconnection links between big datacenters to provide flexible capacity and resilience – all of these represent significant addressable market segments for Lightwave Logic’s technology.
Modulator performance limits the speed of the transmitter, which in turn limits the data-carrying capacity of the entire fiber link. EO polymers have superior speed and sharply reduce the electrical power needed to operate the modulators.
Lightwave Logic estimates that in 2019, the total market for opto-electronic components used in the fiber optics market reached a value of ~$26 billion and is forecasted to grow to approximately $80 billion by 2030.
Above: Market forecasts for photonic (electro-optic) components and transceivers used in optical fiber communications. (Source: Oculi LLC)
The growth in the optical fiber communications market is driven by many factors, primarily:
The historic trend has been a migration from text to graphics, followed by still graphics to increasingly high-definition video. On the accessibility front, the introduction of 5G will enable low-cost mobile internet connections at the same, or higher speeds, as today’s home broadband. This trend continues today as users demand more data at all times.
Recently, particularly since the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic, there has been a sharp increase in reliance on video-conferencing services, often replacing in-person meetings. As video conferencing becomes more commonly used, users will continue to demand faster response times to enable no-lag, real-time communications in full HD.
The benefits of EO polymers, such as low power usage, high speed, increased throughput and lower cost make them ideally suited for markets outside of communications as well, including in consumer, media, augmented reality/virtual reality, medical and industrial applications.
Developing, protecting and commercializing intellectual property is central to Lightwave Logic’s identity as a technology company. Lightwave Logic has over 50 U.S. and international patents and applications that are issued or pending.
These patents provide freedom of manufacture for the company’s electro-optic (EO) polymer materials systems and its optical device technology.
Lightwave Logic’s patent portfolio covers the following areas:
The company continuously seeks to innovate new electro-optic chromophores, designing molecular architectures to meet application needs such as high electro-optic activity and stability. We also design ancillary materials that are useful in conjunction with the EO polymers themselves. Example patents within the materials category include:
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US Patent 7,902,322 | Nonlinear optical chromophores with stabilizing substituent and electro-optic devices |
US Patent 9,535,215 | Fluorinated Sol-Gel Low Refractive Index Hybrid Optical Cladding and Electro-Optic Devices Made Therefrom |
As the company demonstrates its materials in devices, such as modulators, it has engineered ways to enhance device performance by means of device design and optimized control. Example patents within the optical device category include:
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US Patent 10,520,673 | Protection layers for polymer modulators/waveguides |
US Patent 7,738,745 | Method of Biasing and Operating Electr-Optic Polymer Optical Modulators |
Materials innovations are followed by methods in which the Company or its partners can best work with the materials in the fabrication process. Example patents within the fabrication category include:
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US Patent Application 20190353843 | Fabrication process of polymer based photonic apparatus and the apparatus |
US Patent 10,591,755 | Direct-drive polymer modulator methods of fabricating and materials therefor |
Polymers can be used to add functionality to existing semiconductor devices, inclusive of making photonic integrated circuits (ICs). Areas of active innovation include how to get light from one material system into another with minimal losses. Example patents within the semiconductor integration category include:
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US Patent 10,527,786 | Polymer modulator and laser integrated on a common platform and method |
US Patent 10,511,146 | Guide transition device with digital grating deflectors and method |
Challenges for high-speed optical packaging includes maintaining the quality of radio-frequency electrical signals and hermetic/environmental sealing of devices for durability (while still allowing light to go through). Example patents within the packaging category include:
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US Patent 10,574,025 | Hermetic capsule and method for a monolithic photonic integrated circuit |
US Patent 10,162,111 | Multi-fiber/port hermetic capsule sealed by metallization and method |
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