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Thanks Walter! Excellent questions by the group and answers provide some additional insight. IMO, definitely should be mandatory viewing for those attending the shareholder meeting next week. It certainly left me with a sense that a surprise agreement could come at virtually any time. That said, it will be interesting to see if we get further insight next week into what actual hurdles remain...and how much bigger they are willing to project the realizable (with timing) opportunity is.
just finished watching Lebby destroy the Shorts in Belgium, my summary is as follows:
TED IS DEAD!!! PUMPKIN PIE FOR ALL LONGS TO ENJOY!!!!
Lebby has just told investors that LWLG's technology is in such SUPER HIGH DEMAND by virtually all of the Tier 1's, so much so that LWLG is picking and choosing who the Customers will be that will get LWLG's technology to UBIQUITY the FASTEST!!!!
Please WATCH AND LEARN!!!! Here,
A great video! I enjoyed watching it. Thank you, Walter!!! Very interesting to see ML's expression when delivering his spech / answers
Great questions... Still waiting for them to be answered though! Felt awkward watching lebby answer the December deals question. He totally blagged it. Let's be real. I'm sticking to my timeline .. years away.
Walter, thank you for getting the discussion back on track and on fundamentals. The message board has off late become a gutter full of disposable diapers. Looking forward to clear and clean messaging.
Michael was the keynote speaker at the Safecapital event in Ghent on April 20.
Brecht Arnaert allowed me to show the video here;
Indeed sad group … and you a d your friends made it hat is now
#thejoker & teammates
Tate tweeted about buying $1M worth of GameStop stock, the price pumped over a 100%
And now these Hedge Funds have halted trading, so they can prepare to double down on shorts to save their money,
I suspect this will happen here too!
This may all be true for you or false for people who know how much quality is hidden here in LWLG. It's all so simple!!!
Pumpturd- two year old posts you’re referencing now to spread more FUD? Man you really are pathetic.
Power grid breaking , country needs to lower cost
Lwlg has the answer
https://www.reuters.com/business/energy/ferc-overhaul-us-electric-transmission-system-2024-05-13/
Let’s see it!! There should be multiple product copies produced and on display at the ASM. Multiple copies of chips and transceiver prototypes.
Not lab space, not new hires, not new lip service. Product.
#showme
LMAO! Sounds like another High IQ person posting on reddit just like yourself! Magical! 🤣🚀
The 🦍 already sniffed this one out.
https://www.reddit.com/r/wallstreetbets/comments/rfn1yq/puts_on_lwlg_hedge_fund_managed_share_selling/
Not happening!
#scam
Prototype, you are correct, it would be the Shorts' WORST NIGHTMARE!!!
I am going to call this the #RoaringLion Northern Lightwave "effect" and in that regard I added a Lion that we saw on a tour in Chobi National Park, Botswana, in summer of 2019. We were touring Victoria Falls earlier in the day too, and well, we were piloted over the widening Zambezi River, viewing Hippos, Zebras, and Giraffes, as we approached the Falls on individual Ultralights some few 100 feet above the Falls. It was beyond spectacular (my top "life" experience), and then, well my adventurous son, who has Papa's itch, decided to also bungee jump off Victoria Falls Bridge. What a Day.....and what a 3 week trip!
Lightwave is on Deck! If the RoaringKitty can help, so be it! The Lion is soon ready to Roar, and it will be the Worst Nightmare for Some. May they RIP! 😜
If Roaring Kitty (aka DFV) even gets so much as a whiff of LWLG, which unlike GME and AMC actually has something HUGE going for it, that'll be the Shorts WORST NIGHTMARE!!!
#RoaringKitty
#DFV
First, listen to what Lebby said at Wainright here,
in fact, we are enabling network equipment upgrades without changing the network. You don't have to change the fiber, you don't have to change the equipment. You just put our technology, which is like putting a V8 into a four-cylinder car, and you put it into those little boxes. I don't know if there's a point that works here. And those boxes all fit into the network switches and routers, and that upgrades the equipment without changing the equipment, which is really powerful.
https://investorshub.advfn.com/boards/read_msg.aspx?message_id=172839745
KCC posted this on Reddit
Weekend Hangout - Friday, April 19, 2024 by s2upid in LWLG
[–]KCCO7913 2 points 23 minutes ago
What I’m hearing from people that attended yesterdays meeting is that the transceiver partner is a giant company that is dedicating a lot of their own resources to LWLG’s development. It’s just a matter of time before the relationship is made public.
Herwig posted this on IHUB
ML indicated that he does not want to work with many small deals that can be quickly closed.
He immediately wants to go for the really big boys, but with those big boys such implementation takes much longer because the contracts are more complex.
In any case, it was clear that LWLG is sitting at the table with heavyweights.
https://investorshub.advfn.com/boards/read_msg.aspx?message_id=174272533
Herwig also posted this slide showing all the massive Tier 1 interest
https://investorshub.advfn.com/uimage/uploads/2024/4/19/dm[bdIMG_5213.JPG
and Spekkie posted this on IHUB
He just finished. Important take away we are working with multiple tier ones, tripled since a few weeks after OFC , wow we are golden. He showed a slide of the “ eyes” will be on the site as well. This was a real promising speech! Reliability is NOT an issue! Look at the eyes!
https://investorshub.advfn.com/boards/read_msg.aspx?message_id=174270982
Lebby already told investors who the Customers would be!! here
with Cisco, Intel, Google, Ciena as LWLG Customers I wouldn't want to be stuck holding the Old Maid "Short" card when Lebby drops additional Licensing and Tech Transfer Agreements in 2024!!
there are 22 Million++ Shorts holding that Old Maid card currently!!
TWST: Do you see your ideal customers like Cisco or whoever makes these particular modulation devices? Are they the ones who are going to buy?
Dr. Lebby: Yes, they will — a lot of these larger companies. The Ciscos of this world as well as the Intels and the Cienas, these types of players, Googles and others. A lot of these folks are actually vertically integrated. So they actually do a lot of the things themselves. And some of the parts they send out to foundries or to contract manufacturers.
https://www.reddit.com/r/LWLG/comments/15twmqr/interview_with_dr_lebby_august_17_2023/
Folks, these are pretty bold statements by Lebby, and Lebby is one of the top Luminaries of the photonics Industry, personally I would NOT want to bet against him!!!
Short Playbook has run out of pages, every Short argument has FAILED miserably, from calling LWLG vaporware to saying it can never be done, it's failed science experiment, it can't be poled, then well except maybe one at a time, then well they'll never be able scale it in a small Foundry, then they'll never be able scale it in a BIG Foundry
ALL THESE ARGUMENTS WERE PURE BULLSHIT!!! And Shorts hired paid bashers galore!!!
But now Lebby commands the driver seat and he's working the largest companies on God's green earth!!! What caused the shift to ONLY pursuing the giant companies? investors already learned the answer to that from the LD Micro interview of what transpired in the first couple months of 2024, that being success at several large Foundries on 200mm Wafers perfect for MASS COMMERCIALIZATION of the Google, Cisco, Ciena etc companies, here
https://investorshub.advfn.com/boards/read_msg.aspx?message_id=174203972
No Dan. If it goes down, it is low-volume manipulation. It’s never because there is no outside evidence of a product or commercialization in the foreseeable future.
The only people that know what is going on with the company are the ‘true longs’ on this board. The market certainly doesn’t. Everyone, outside of a small cadre of uniquely informed investors here, are completely in the dark about the true state of the company’s prospects.
Ego is a powerful force.
These folk are binary thinkers dice man. Sad group who are easily bamboozled.
#scam
“A foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds”
- Ralph Waldo Emerson, ‘Self-Reliance’
A thoughtful analysis is Emerson's point is that only small-minded people refuse to reevaluate their previous beliefs, and that today's intuition can be better than yesterday's conclusions. He believed that a great person doesn't need to think consistently from day to day, and that people should live a life that's true to their core self.
For those who reevaluate their beliefs and previous conclusions. - Carry on.
#showme
Here is the only reason this was up even a little today.
I’m not the only one saying I’m just the first one who said it.
https://www.zerohedge.com/markets/hedge-funds-hammered-roaring-kitty-returns-bitcoin-black-gold-bid
and prompted squeezes/panic-covering across the 'most shorted' names and 'retail favorites (memes)' soared...
This stock is in those baskets. Sorry to say but you better hope ML is sitting on something good for the ASM or its new 52w lows on deck. We might even see a 2 handle on the next drop.
#scam
Thanks for reminding everyone of the Freaks group chant of "One Of Us! One Of Us!" at the ASM...
Plotting OUR future. Not Dan's, or Dice's, or NRDC92's. Not Pumpkin's future, or Chnsmoke's, or Sonata's. Not Tedpeele's.
Plotting OURRRRRRR future.
So you think the 10q and ASM is why lwlg bumped up today? That would imply several good up days in a row? And you didn't see many heavily shorted stocks have a good day today? Maybe there's better news tomorrow and the stock is anticipating it? If the stock goes down in the next few days, I doubt you'll apologize for being wrong.....again.
doa. "over 20 major corporations have viewed..."
this is typical lwlg language. almost every word exudes obfuscation.
over 20?! this could mean 21 or 2001. one can hazard a guess that if it was 25, they'd say, over two dozen...
'major corporations'?! what do they regard as 'major?' and why not name them? or some of them? there is nothing
necessarily secretive or confidential, especially when the following phrase is:
'have viewed??????????????????? this can mean literally anything. what it says is nothing!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
lwlg could've sent photos to an engineer at X company. or a video. or an employee of lwlg could've paid a visit
to a company and shown them virtually anything because anything constitutes 'have viewed..
this is exactly why every person i've spoken to or been in contact with about lwlg thinks there is a very good possibility
that the company isn't even close to being seriously considered as a business partner by a single potential customer.
the pps hovering around $4, and the huge number of shorts reflects the suspicious, skeptical, even disbelieving market perception. for good reason!!!!!!!!!
and finally, if how they hope and want us to interpret this statement was legit, why hasn't a single major corporation pursued a deal???????????
You're not a good poster....on any board. Lol
Brain Dead on Arrival- you are the arbiter of who is a good poster on this board? That’s hilarious.
The shorts and bitter old longs, that sold Lightwave under $1 shareholders are just emitting natural and smelly gas (i.e. CH4). Maybe even the nasty/toxic SH2 stuff!
All we need is a flame (proper PR of deal) and they will become "poof" as our Lightwave 🚀 heads to Outer Space! 🛸
Spartex, you are correct!!
BUT, if Roaring Kitty (aka DFV) does get even a whiff of LWLG which unlike GME and AMC actually has something HUGE going for it. that'll be the Shorts WORST NIGHTMARE!!!
#RoaringKitty
#DFV
First, listen to what Lebby said at Wainright here,
in fact, we are enabling network equipment upgrades without changing the network. You don't have to change the fiber, you don't have to change the equipment. You just put our technology, which is like putting a V8 into a four-cylinder car, and you put it into those little boxes. I don't know if there's a point that works here. And those boxes all fit into the network switches and routers, and that upgrades the equipment without changing the equipment, which is really powerful.
https://investorshub.advfn.com/boards/read_msg.aspx?message_id=172839745
KCC posted this on Reddit
Weekend Hangout - Friday, April 19, 2024 by s2upid in LWLG
[–]KCCO7913 2 points 23 minutes ago
What I’m hearing from people that attended yesterdays meeting is that the transceiver partner is a giant company that is dedicating a lot of their own resources to LWLG’s development. It’s just a matter of time before the relationship is made public.
Herwig posted this on IHUB
ML indicated that he does not want to work with many small deals that can be quickly closed.
He immediately wants to go for the really big boys, but with those big boys such implementation takes much longer because the contracts are more complex.
In any case, it was clear that LWLG is sitting at the table with heavyweights.
https://investorshub.advfn.com/boards/read_msg.aspx?message_id=174272533
Herwig also posted this slide showing all the massive Tier 1 interest
https://investorshub.advfn.com/uimage/uploads/2024/4/19/dm[bdIMG_5213.JPG
and Spekkie posted this on IHUB
He just finished. Important take away we are working with multiple tier ones, tripled since a few weeks after OFC , wow we are golden. He showed a slide of the “ eyes” will be on the site as well. This was a real promising speech! Reliability is NOT an issue! Look at the eyes!
https://investorshub.advfn.com/boards/read_msg.aspx?message_id=174270982
Lebby already told investors who the Customers would be!! here
with Cisco, Intel, Google, Ciena as LWLG Customers I wouldn't want to be stuck holding the Old Maid "Short" card when Lebby drops additional Licensing and Tech Transfer Agreements in 2024!!
there are 22 Million++ Shorts holding that Old Maid card currently!!
TWST: Do you see your ideal customers like Cisco or whoever makes these particular modulation devices? Are they the ones who are going to buy?
Dr. Lebby: Yes, they will — a lot of these larger companies. The Ciscos of this world as well as the Intels and the Cienas, these types of players, Googles and others. A lot of these folks are actually vertically integrated. So they actually do a lot of the things themselves. And some of the parts they send out to foundries or to contract manufacturers.
https://www.reddit.com/r/LWLG/comments/15twmqr/interview_with_dr_lebby_august_17_2023/
Folks, these are pretty bold statements by Lebby, and Lebby is one of the top Luminaries of the photonics Industry, personally I would NOT want to bet against him!!!
Short Playbook has run out of pages, every Short argument has FAILED miserably, from calling LWLG vaporware to saying it can never be done, it's failed science experiment, it can't be poled, then well except maybe one at a time, then well they'll never be able scale it in a small Foundry, then they'll never be able scale it in a BIG Foundry
ALL THESE ARGUMENTS WERE PURE BULLSHIT!!! And Shorts hired paid bashers galore!!!
But now Lebby commands the driver seat and he's working the largest companies on God's green earth!!! What caused the shift to ONLY pursuing the giant companies? investors already learned the answer to that from the LD Micro interview of what transpired in the first couple months of 2024, that being success at several large Foundries on 200mm Wafers perfect for MASS COMMERCIALIZATION of the Google, Cisco, Ciena etc companies, here
https://investorshub.advfn.com/boards/read_msg.aspx?message_id=174203972
there goes tedybear again trying to get investors to focus on his misdirection just like a seasoned magician!! Too funny!!!!
The FACT is that Lebby RIGHT NOW has the 200gbs LWLG modulator ready for mass production of 200mm Wafers being implemented at SEVERAL LARGE FOUNDRIES, and Lebby post-OFC meetings in Belgium declared NO ISSUES left to solve!!! here,
Spekkie said, When I asked whether the products were ready and if any issues were outstanding, he clearly said that everything was ready (stability, scaling etc) and the time line was fully intact and there were no changes to that. Tier 1’s are very interested and the number of them significantly increased after OFC demo’s.
https://investorshub.advfn.com/boards/read_msg.aspx?message_id=174302051
The FACT is that the DEMONSTRATIONS of this device at OFC were so over-the-top successful that the Tier 1's are fighting now for Lebby/LWLG's time, for their Engineers to be working with LWLG Engineers!!! In fact, the response to the OFC demos has been so overwhelming that Lebby claims the Tier 1's "being PULLED along" has become more like "being dragged along" (a good problem to have!!!)
Spekkie posted this
, Important take away we are working with multiple tier ones, tripled since a few weeks after OFC , wow we are golden
Oh and BTW, teddybear has practically ZERO understanding of the things he posts here, it is like he is throwing spaghetti up against the wall to see if it sticks!!! Too funny!! KCC already shot down teddybear's newest lame arguments, here
1) That is the correct image from the Google shout out. Zwickel was the reference. The date was 2020 but I think it was just a continuation of the 2018 paper you posted. It’s a slot modulator structure so of course LWLGs pictures and these pictures are going to look the same.
2) LWLG owns the IP for the technology in the 5k hour paper. You gotta peel the onion back on these types of stats to see what may or may not be significant. There’s material only tests, tests on devices, tests on packaged devices. LWLG’s data today is packaged devices that are quasi-hermetically sealed using the ALD and do not require a gold box package for that hermetic seal. Leaps and bounds ahead of that paper.
3) 100% poling efficiency there isn’t what you think it means. There, it means the material r33 stayed the same when they put it into a device. Generally there’s a reduction in r33 “in-device”.
https://investorshub.advfn.com/boards/read_msg.aspx?message_id=174402284
The important thing for investors to focus on is that Lebby is still on-track with his long-standing Timeline to Customer Acceptance and Ramp at 800gbs in 2024!!!!
Lebby has not backed down from his stated SAM/SOM goals and in Belgium discussions my understanding he said these are likely to be increased now!! The SAM/SOM goals match EXACTLY to Lebby's long-standing Timeline for a Customer Acceptance and Ramp in 2024!!
Lebby provided SAM/SOM GOALS at ASM for 2024 to 2030
I built a detailed financial model using the SOM/SAM information for 800G and 1.6T pluggable transceivers and it shows a $5-10 billion market cap by 2028 using the "base case" SOM estimates.
It's not perfect, but probably the most precise model anyone has put together so far. A big unknown is the COGS and OPEX, but using 80-85% gross margin (like OLED) and knowing LWLG estimates around 50 employees at mass commercialization...it's probably close. My revenue estimates also center around the value of the modulators, and not necessarily revenue had in technology transfer agreements. I'm not sure how those agreements would be priced and if LWLG would offer a discount so to speak since someone else it spending the money in manufacturing.
This is all just for one application and there are endless applications for super small, fast and efficient modulators. Hell, I even found a white paper using a MZM-based sensors used as a "nose" for fermenting coffee and finding the most precise time to stop the fermenting process.
Now - IMO, the company will be bought out well before we ever hit $1 billion in revenue. That's fine with me. OLED hit $10-15B market cap with around $500 million in revenue.
-KCC
https://www.reddit.com/r/LWLG/comments/15f4un7/daily_trading_action_and_general_discussion/?
Dead on arrival, name says it all
I hope you sent that Vulcan a bunch of dead roses. Cannot wait for the lab tour and the softball questions lobbed to the alien.
1) Is it true that X has been hired to clean Jim's pool in Florida?
answer- no comment. He is in discussions to subcontract the work out as we speak.
2) Has Astro bitten anyone since you picked him up at the shelter?
answer- yes, but he has been muzzled in public now.
3)Are the Belgians your largest group of investing for dummies?
answer-yes and by a long shot. You can sell them anything.
4)How long can you keep grifting off unsuspecting shareholders?
answer-As long as the SEC does not shut us down.
That ends our Q&A. Thank you schmucks for another year of zero results but nice salaries. Stay turned for our fireside chat come December.
They will have a one month late Easter egg hunt in the lab. Prizes include coupons to Marcelli's Asian BBQ and empty eggs which represent how many deals they have signed until the next batch of eggs next year.
This Benzinga garbage has to stop. The IR firm has to be let go ASAP. Marcelli has to go. Lebby has to be relieved of his duties. He is a terrible CEO.
Go ahead come with fact of this accusation, my guess is you can’t but it is only your frustration you want to point out, as always you are such a clown
Why is he a liar ??
Please explain to me with real facts as you make a real accusations !!
Waiting for your reply !
#thejoker
The sharpest pencil in the box is also here ???
Whats your contribution ? Loser of the day ?????
#thejoker
What a joke this LWL and what a assh this Lebby with his constantly lies about coming deals....
HERE ARE MY OBSERVATIONS ON TODAY'S CARROT DANGLING...
Now that everyone has had a chance to digest the pathetic update and nauseating interview there is only one thing we can all agree on with the .30 drop from the high of the day...
1) TIMBER
2) TIMBER
3) TIMBER
WHERE IS MY "SHOUT OUT FROM GOOGLE" PROTOPUMPER/PROTOPUPPET???
C'mon. What are the Tier 1's demanding, 'more of'?
Lebby making out tier one deals are imminent .... A week later he's begging it on benzinga with his bag of carrots!!! Lol .. absolute beg!!
And who are you ? The j…er ?
#thejoker
No money to buy the ticket !!
#thejoker
While the rest of the nerds try, to great frustration, to play Frisbee with the 200mm wafer?
You post stupid repating ??
I will help you … first of all its repeating …
Second you tell stupid things !! Not Lebby !!!
#thejoker
Jesus Christ himself !! He is here to save you all from an investment in LWLG ???
Doe anyone believe this ? Really ?
A person who is changing alias like pants ? Coming to spread bs under another alias and when posters find out, Adam dissapears ?
Is this the source to be trusted ?
Dont think so …
Investors do your own DD and invest or not !
#thejoker
I suspect Dr. Lebby's use of the word "Granularity" may indicate that over time, the company plans to drop news more frequently, but in small doses of significance. Imagine an Hour Glass... Cumulatively, those nuggets will likely amount to something IMHO. The company DOES need to improve their communication skills with shareholders but I continue to think the company is sitting on a powder keg.
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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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