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And MACOM has a known history of testing EOP modulators so perhaps they’re in the mix here.
Either a member of the newly formed LPO MSA or a white box maker such as Google.
Shareholders close to the company are aware of relationships with Intel, IBM, and Google. Long ago those relationships were confirmed but nowadays IMO it is safe to assume those relationships have been reactivated at least.
EO polymer modulators will commercialize on a grand scale. When? I don’t know. Sounds like soon enough.
So who would be the transceiver tier 1 companies??!
"Current semiconductor photonic technology today is both struggling to reach faster device speeds as well as seamless integration with commercial silicon foundries. Our modulator devices, enabled by our electro-optic polymer material systems, work at extremely high frequencies (wide bandwidths) and possess inherent advantages over current crystalline electro-optic material contained in most modulator devices such as bulk lithium niobate (LiNbO3), indium phosphide (InP), silicon (Si), and gallium arsenide (GaAs)."
"Since the invited talk at OFC 2024, a number of 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."
Slim, I believe he is "Internet of Things" disabled. Fortunately there are some nice long folks here, like yourself, that can hand out the internet "link" canes to the needy! 😉
It's REAL and it's HAPPENING!!!! here,
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, a number of 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.
page 19
https://www.sec.gov/ix?doc=/Archives/edgar/data/0001325964/000155335024000021/lwlg_10q-033124.htm
Note - Cash to Fund Operating Budget through most of 2026 !!!! The road to UBIQUITY begins with 800Gbs now in 2024 right as Lebby's Timeline has told investors for the last few years!!
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!!!
I've seen a lot of buyouts in the 50-100 percent premium range.....especially in the biotech industry, or when a megacap buys a small cap....word of the buyout can't leak out publicly first though.
Also if a buyout is near then they are walking it down on purpose to get the share price to the right level of the deal meaning it will be less than $7.
When do you ever see a buyout that’s more than 20% higher than the market value. That rarely happens.
Imaging being invested here for over two decades and go out with a whimper. Yikes!
Insiders will get paid on their options that vest per the AQ Agreement and the company’s contractual agreement to insiders. Retail shareholders will get screwed again.
Typical with these fraudsters.
Remember shareholders have zero say if they sell out being that they are a Nevada corporation. Shady!
#scam
That would be a material event and need to be disclosed.
If amount of R&D expenses being funded are very large relative to the company's overall R&D budget and financial position it would be material.
If they haven’t disclosed anything then they are minimal.
Buyout will be no greater than $7 per share if it happens.
#scam
Good news for JM and ML.
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/article/2024/may/07/elizabeth-holmes-prison-sentence
#scam
So , who would be the tier 1 pluggable folks mentioned in the q??
Expenses smoking gun. "Research and development efforts; the rate at which we can, directly or through arrangements with original equipment manufacturers"
X. Wow, I like it and said so, the bulk of development is off the books and being covered by outside forces,, in other words we can not see that. Those are not Lighwave logic direct expenses.
Their engineers and expenses are being covered by the big guys,, the tier 1s.
Good news everywhere I looked.
Cool cool cool.
The shorts will parse words, I knew it. Nice, nice nice.
"through arrangements with original equipment manufacturers" yup. Comprende?
I still say that LWLG will be taken over.
So where is the 10 q??
But Astro said they just keep buying. Lebby needs to put a choke collar on him.
But Astro said they just keep buying. Lebby needs to put a choke collar on him.
Insiders with the company must have laughed when they exercised options up in the high teens. The Vulcan and his idiot sidekick must have had a chuckle when they cashed in on multi-million dollar tickets while the stock price cratered. Marcelli justifies his existence by using Roth and LPSlime to dilute the company at shareholder expense. Nice racket if you can get the job. Phil Smith picked the wrong jockey when he grabbed Marcelli off the scrap heap to run LWLG. How he is still with them is a joke.
Let's see what the Vulcan spits out a week from Wednesday. There is no reason to buy the stock anymore. The game is up unless there is news. Not too many winners here unless you traded out in 2021. The Belgians are now up over 400 million in both Niocorp and LWLG and they hold their shares. Still have yet to figure that one out but hats off to them. X has handed his money away to charitable causes and now is Jim's pool boy in Florida. Good for him.
the beginning of the big slide?
i didn't think it would happen until a week or two after the ASM.
lwlg/lebby clearly have nothing tier 1's are willing to implement and the speed of innovation is
such that alternatives to photonics will start popping up within the year.
i've no idea why lwlg's impressive testing tech isn't wanted, but i do know that amazing innovations get
passed over all the time. managing a business is very hard and managing a really innovative tiny company like lwlg
requires business talent that is very rare.
evidently lebby not only doesn't have it, he isn't someone who would give himself over to finding and hiring someone
who does. besides the bonuses and the carrot dangling, what got my hackles up was when karen liu (i think that is her
name) left the company and went on the much greener pastures. between her going and marcelli staying, that's when
i got the first bad case of the jitters.
Well , at least we filed it !!
People whining about people whining. Not really sure which is more annoying.
I have had him on ignore for a while now and find I don’t miss his incessant whining. Please put him on ignore so I don’t have to read your responses to his incessant whining.
Its an index fund.
Furthermore, why do you write about AI and that they are maybe moving money that way. Why do you make that assumption?
Sell and move on vein stop you’re whining everyday everyhour it is driving me crazy
Personally, I've given up trying to explain this. The foreigners don't get it, and the board cheerleaders are more than happy to let them be misinformed about it.
The ASM should be called:
THE ROAST OF MICHAEL LEBBY
Maybe we can have Kevin Hart host it and live stream it on NETFLIX.
We can get all the previous CEOs to attend and take their shots and a few selected investors. 😉
Definitely closing below 4 bucks ! Awesome
teddybear AGAIN FOR 10th TIME!!!! >>> I've called you and your bff out multiple times now to defend WHY anyone in their right mind would say TFLN will be the material that is the winner in Photonics!!! It is ABSURDLY stupid as those that would TOUT IT!!!!
here once again for you and marky boy, you guys MUST HAVE MISSED IT... AGAIN!!!!,
oh teddybear trying again to baffle them with your bullshit, along with a HIGHLY DISREPECTED JOURNALIST that Jose had to PUBLICLY SHAME AFTER THE YOUTUBE FEED WAS CUT OFF, but for PARTICIPANTS ON THE ZOOM MEETING it was heard LIVE!!!! Here's the TRUTH folks!!!!
TFLN? here worth another LQQk,
TFLN isn’t ready. Unless HyperLight drastically expanded their production line and figured out their stability issues, they aren’t able to supply the market.
Liobate. No. Luxtelligence and it’s customers. No. Lightium is the new guy. No, years away. Rapid Photonics. Who? Ori-Chip. Maybe if anyone. NanoLN…monopoly on TFLN wafers hence why Luxtelligence and Lightium exist. Eoptolink uses HyperLight’s PICs because their own Chinese suppliers can’t supply…and Eopolink isn’t selling. And why is that…go to the paragraph above.
“The volume will act as a barrier.” LOL for TFLN you mean Markie?
-KCC
https://investorshub.advfn.com/boards/read_msg.aspx?message_id=174320206
HyperLight is TFLN's #1 leading company in world!!! Check out HyperLight's latest Development of "gold-box" TFLN modulators which they are proudly showcasing at CLEO next week!!! Too funny!!!
https://cleo24.mapyourshow.com/8_0/exhibitor/exhibitor-details.cfm?exhid=209&shareguid=0C02EFD5-B1E7-126B-A742469AED53E0F4
Hyperlight is showcasing its TFLN GOLD BOX modulator as their PRIZE DEVELOPMENT!!!
TOO FUNNY!!!!
Hyperlight is supposedly the #1 TFLN company in the world!!!!!
This is where LWLG was about 5 years ago!!!!
This is where LWLG was about 5 years ago!!!!
This is where LWLG was about 5 years ago!!!!
here's a sample meeting of a Google/Amazon/Nvidia etc CEO with their Chief Engineer of Photonics
CEO, so what do you think we should use for our true next-gen internet transmissions solution?
ENG, well we've been working hard to help you decide the BEST solution and here's what we've got, Mark L says TFLN is going to be the winner of all the materials out there
CEO, ok, so then TFLN must have all those things we spoke about right? Is TFLN incredibly small so as to free up space in the Transceiver box so we don't have to implement Co-Packaged Optics any time within the next several generations?
ENG, well no, actually LWLG Polymers fit 120 devices in the same space TFLN fits only 8, but Mark L says TFLN is going to be the winner of all the materials out there
CEO, ok, well then TFLN must be using the least power right?
ENG, well no, actually LWLG Polymers is the ONLY solution operating at sub-1Volt that ELIMINATE the power hungry and expensive Driver Chip, but Mark L says TFLN is going to be the winner of all the materials out there
CEO, ok, well then TFLN must have the lowest Optical Losses and will save us money on requiring less DSP usage right?
ENG, well no, actually LWLG Polymers has MUCH LOWER Optical Losses, but Mark L says TFLN is going to be the winner of all the materials out there
CEO, ok well TFLN must be SUPER COMPATIBLE with Standard Silicon Foundries right?
ENG, well no, actually LWLG Polymers are SUPER COMPATIBLE with Standard Silicon Foundries and we are not sure whether TFLN can be "shoehorned in" to a Silicon Foundry PDK yet but there are quite a few companies trying to do that right now, but Mark L says TFLN is going to be the winner of all the materials out there
CEO, ok, well I've heard that TFLN does not yet have a 200Gbs device capable of being mass produced at a large SiPh Foundry on 200mm Wafers?
ENG, sorry sir, NO they don't yet, but they are working really hard on that right now!!
CEO, what about LWLG Polymers, can they mass produce a 200Gbs device on 200mm Wafers at a large Foundry?
ENG, well YES sir, they just got done demonstrating perfect Open Eyes of that very device at OFC to MANY Tier1's along with Research Analysts, etc, it was VERY IMPRESSIVE indeed, I was there!!! BUT may I remind you, Mark L says TFLN is going to be the winner of all the materials out there
CEO, well I actually know Michael Lebby and I know of all his credentials in leadership of the Photonics Industry, but I really hadn't considered what you are telling me about Mark L telling everyone that TFLN is the way to go, interesting, well I've come to my decision
ENG, well did I convince you? Are you going with TFLN as Mark L says is going to be the winner?
CEO, no actually I'm going with Lebby/LWLG and YOU'RE FIRED!!!
Oh and one more thing, LWLG's technology has HEADROOM for at least a decade of future generations!!
TFLN does NOT!!!
Here from the 2023 ASM Lebby quoted a Foundry as saying the following "At our Foundry we are worried about an investment into TFLN, it may only be for one generation, but with (LWLG) Polymers our investment would be worthwhile and a better ROI"
LWLG beats ALL Next-Gen Competitors hands down!!! Let's compare,
Understanding Figure of Merit (FOM) the BEST place to be on the chart shown on Slide 47 is the TOP and RIGHT of the chart, and notice this is EXACTLY where LWLG is shown as compared to the competing Next-Gen challengers!!!
https://api.mziq.com/mzfilemanager/v2/d/23d26d3e-c498-431f-ba5c-2250e5f374cb/9bec8dfc-0108-5227-4f5b-d31f67ae623a?origin=2
LWLG tops ALL competition in FOM scores by far!!!!
Let's discuss the Competition >> from the ASM video starting at about 21:06 investors learn that amazingly there is no REAL competition to LWLG's technology for transmitting data!!! The first slide on competition shown is #25 and it has columns for each of the competitive products and then down the page a list of attributes along with the comparable Ratings for each of them, LWLG's Polymers are by far and away TONS THE BEST versus ALL the competitors!!
Let's review each of the attributes and see why LWLG's technology is SO SUPERIOR to any/all of them
1) SPEED >> LWLG is TONS THE BEST with speeds over 100GHz with HEADROOM to go MUCH FASTER!!!!! The rest of the competitors MAX OUT in the 30GHz - 70GHz range!!!
2) SIZE >> LWLG's slot modulator is the smallest, InP comes closest, but LNb, TFLN, and BTO are all MUCH BIGGER, in fact in another slide Lebby compares LWLG's slot modulator array to TFLN and in the space where 8 TFLN modulators sit, there could be 15 times as many LWLG slot modulators (120 modualtors!!)
3) POWER (Voltage) >> Only LWLG's technology is at sub 1 volt, SiP up to 5 volts, InP up to 7 volts, LNb up to 40 volts, TFLN up to 5 volts, BTO up to 3 volts
4) OPTICAL LOSS >> again LWLG slot is BEST with 3-8Db, SiP up to 20Db, InP up to 10Db, LNb up to 12Db, TFLN up to 15Db, BTO up to 12Db
5) ENERGY CONSUMPTION >> LWLG is BEST again with just 5pj/bit!!! SiP up to 20pj/bit, InP up to 40pj/bit, LNb up to 100pj/bit, TFLN up to 20pj/bit, BTO up to 20pj/bit
6) STABILITY >> again LWLG is the BEST, while SiP and InP are also very Stabile, the newcomers BTO and TFLN are NOT stabile enough for commercial acceptance!!
7) FOUNDRY COMPATABILITY >> Only LWLG and SiP use "Standard SiP PDK Fabrication", InP, LNb, TFLN and BTO are NOT able to use "Standard SiP PDK Fabrication" they all require their own Foundries
8) REQUIRES DRIVER (Expensive & Power Hungry!!!!) >> Only LWLG at sub 1 volt can ELIMINATE THE DRIVER!!!!! This is HUGE HUGE HUGE!!!!
Lebby also illustrates all of this at 25:18 marker with Slide #29 where the BEST technology would be found as HIGH UP and as FAR TO THE RIGHT as can be, notice ONLY one technology is placed there and it is of course LWLG in the light green shaded rectangle!!!
Once again, Blackrock is programmed buying/selling to adjust index fund holdings. It is neither an endorsement or rejection of LWLG as an investment. If LWLG was not in the Russell 2000 Blackrock and Vanguard’s holdings of LWLG would be absolute ZERO.
Bla bla bla bla …
Time for you to find another board
#thejoker
Lost half my money in the twenty-four leaps. Looks like I lose the rest in the twenty-five leaps. Thought too highly of ML.
The market knows nothing in Antwerp was important info - ie whatever interpretation Walter or the others put on it, it doesn't matter.
Anything Jeunke or Walter or Speckie found reassuring - whatever it was - it was not something of value because that would have been an SEC violation - it would HAVE to be publicly shared in a PR or filing or social media to be true and legal.
Anyone that thinks what he said on March 1 was no longer the case 6 weeks later in Antwerp is mistaken. The crowd here responds with 'blah, blah blah' but the market knows better. The market knows and has known for some time that the cult is just flat out wrong in their denial. That's why I focus on the newcomers. They are more open to the truth.
THIS is the latest and the market KNOWS that it means NOTHING big will happen at ASM and nothing big is coming anytime soon thereafter. Anyone that thinks reliability and scalability are not holding back deals or even a transceiver company wanting to make a demo - needs to rethink things.
March 1, 2024:
Blackrock lightened their exposure by 2.28%, but I'm not alarmed by that. It is a small adjustment. Maybe they are moving some of their holdings into other AI investments that appear to be the "Shiny Penny" for now. I'm NOT concerned.... I DO want to see a 10-Q though. Maybe this afternoon, or maybe Monday....
https://fintel.io/so/us/lwlg
There is no bottom
Didn't someone call the bottom ar 4 ???? Was that you Vein ??🤣🤣🤣🤣
They meant the second deal is the real deal. Not the first, first deal. The second first deal will lead to a second second deal and a ubiquitous second third deal.The first first deal, while it "proves commercial acceptance", was just practice. While the practice first first deal was hard, the second first is super duper hard, but maybe not the hardest yet? They're also super sorry for the confusion. They might get a template by the third, first deal....in 2026.
You are worse than X and he is insufferable.
Well, if a swarm of locusts descended on this board. I bought a few days ago for 3,87 still a nice buy. With the 10Q published tonight today’s action seems like last orchestrated desperate effort for shares. I would say ideal moment to cover or to accumulate. Don’t forget friction means heat and we longs have quite some experience with this game. Have a nice weekend and hopefully a good 10Q read ( if not delayed, because they may want to prop it up with some exciting news).
I wonder what Lebby told Blackrock and Vanguard to get them invested. Uplisting to the Nasdaq has been a disaster for everyone except LWLG employees and management . Using LPC to sell into liquidity provided by MM's and tutes gets the company capital while diluting the stock more. It has not helped shareholders one bit.
Thank you Dr.Spock and the used car greaser.
MDK,
Will you please show a chart of LWLG and put the 10 year treasury yield over top so we can see the inverse relationship between the two?
For the nth time. the stock follows the 10 year treasury (inversely). Today the 10 year yield is up 50 bps and we are down. Small caps sell off when yields go up.. Over the last week or so prior to today, the 10 year yeild came down and our stock price went up. THis is what we have unitl we get news.
Did you call this one year after being commercially accepted. 3.90 and not another deal signed since ??. I think the word was 2-3 more deals by November. The first deal is the hardest and have to get it right. It will be the template for all future deals.
U would think the market was tanking with this shit performance
Get yourself a leather mask and ball gag so you can be treated like you want to be treated by Lebby/Marcelli.
Just fck off mate.
Must be shorts ! Oh well... Must feel good walking into weekend in $3 range. You seem happy enough ..lmao.... I'll attend asm fully naked if there's any deals announced before then .. nevermind a tier one!!! If you guys actually still believe the shite that's spewed by lebby and longs on here then you need sectioning .... Fruit bats!
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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:
Publication Number | Title |
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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:
Publication Number | Title |
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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:
Publication Number | Title |
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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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