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Plato rolling over in his grave with the logic that 36 likes is evidence that it was needed.
Funny.
Oops 17.5 million shorted, 29 million on o
Loan sorry reds.
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If the short was over 18, now the short is 13.5, and the stock is going down on big covering, why will price go up on good news?
Thought Michael Lebby was going to announce something big before December 31. Now it's just an "update'.
somebody's wrong.
I'm just guessing, but while I do believe PDK announcements will move the pps in the right direction, the shorting may get thinner, but will continue. When the company starts talking about revenues, the shorting is likely to taper off dramatically IMHO. This is the most volatile stock I currently own and it is also by far my biggest holding.
Now 10%! Must be the market..oh wait, the market is only down 1%…
Boomer to buying opportunity!
Who says the shorting won’t continue even if we get news? It’s been a year now that they keep having complete control over the share price.
Of course they can keep them open.
The very fact that Richard’s post got 36 likes is evidence that it was needed. Expectations have varied quite a bit here and the most recent narrative was trending towards looking for a simple update with no further expectations
x said---"Do you guys literally not understand that you can purchase more shares when the price drops? Do really want to own less shares than more shares? Over the long haul the shorts providing discounted shares is of benefit to the longs that are buying them."
So all you true long-termers should be happy, now that you can buy "a few thousand" shares more.
I really think you hit it, Lewrock.
Nobody wants to hear the truth. Stop it.
Down 7%. So happy I can buy more. Pshhh
Remember everyone - when the share price goes down by 7%, it's because of shorts playing games. Or institutions trying to drive the price down so that can acquire 50% of the company. It's definitely not because it's almost December and the company is about to default on its own promise of announcing results from 2 foundries in 2H 2022. Or the fact that the company has no product, no customers, and no revenue. Or the fact that the Board of Directors took one look at the company's position this time last year and sold stock as fast as they could. Nope, definitely not any of those reasons, definitely one of the first two reasons.
Does anyone follow EPIC on LinkedIn? December 6th is New Product release date for members. It is also a Tuesday!
We constantly tell you our expectation for the company you just don't agree with us.
Not new, this is when the professional interviewer exposed the company even more with the observation the company (LWLG) has nearly $100Million shareholder deficit and NO SALES.
Another mistep in the non-techie area of running the company. You see, Dr Lebby is learning on the fly and has been already been rewarded.
Remember, it is likely BOD selling season...just look at the form 4's for 2021 and 2022, just disgusting, imo.
New lebby interview
"The drill down"
Lebby interview
https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/ep-177-lightwave-logic-ceo-michael-lebby-w-w-grainger/id1564993923?i=1000584864303
Another stellar performance as the foundry pdk announcements are imminent. What a non-performing POS.
No they can keep them open. Shorts back up to 13.5 million. Borrowed 1.5 million, returned 950k. Working down the cost to borrow.
80 percent of the trades today are shorts or market makers playing the game selling.
Xster cool
Orders just ain't filling today with my lightwave .. Even wen the bid is higher than the ask. Trade212 being shifty as always. If they ain't loaning your shares out without permission then there ignoring your bid.. Had 100 shares for 8.52.... Hit 8.48 and didn't fill. I'm doing a bloomer.. Wake me up end of Q4 lol
Does anybody know if the shorties are able to maintain the short positions THRU the end of the annual calendar year?
Shouldn't they have a requirement to clear the books, so to speak, by year-end? IE., forced to buy-back outstanding positions?
My guess is, that when the shortest close their positions, it could be mean an immediate push up of the PPS of $18-20 in addition to where the current price is set.
Thanks! Go LWLG!
Terms of service.
Some 13f's out today
https://fintel.io/so/us/lwlg
Why do you care so much what they think?
"Do you guys literally not understand that you can purchase more shares when the price drops? Do really want to own less shares than more shares? Over the long haul the shorts providing discounted shares is of benefit to the longs that are buying them."
So what you are saying is that the shorts are a positive for all of us long-term shareholders that want nothing but to see the cost per share going up? So when you daily attack the shorts, you actually want them to drive our on paper fortune lower so you with more than a million shares can buy some discounted shares?
pit- cutting down some trees can't check spelling. No games being played here. honestly, honestly, honestly
I want to know Koog and Pumpkin's thoughts on NIST's collaboration with LWLG.
Why are they collaborating on projects if perkinamine can't make it outside a lab environment? That is not a rhetorical question - I would love to know the answer.
microchips, it reminds me of the movie "A few good men" when good old Jack Nicholson says "You can't handle the truth!!" Bottom line is that these fabulous four shorts/whatever can't handle the truth on Lightwave's imminent Foundry success, and creation of 100s of Lightwave longs' multi-millionaires.
What is the probability a PDK will be successfully created and not used?
Yeah, you may be right. I think 36 likes probably represents something meaningful though
I'm in total agreement with this post. Perhaps if I had an extra shoebox full of cash, I'd buy some like I did with GFS, but ultimately I see the dollars being better spent on LWLG.
That being said, someone with a high worth and high number of LWLG shares might diversify with it and do very well.
I don't think that you are going to figure out retail expectations from a message board, and especially not this one. There are too many investors and many are quite sharp. They are not going to tell you much about their emotions. Just the facts... And mostly big picture investors.
I tried to find it yesterday, but I could not find the old TRL scale slides, I know they are out there, this is the first year they put on the timeline guidance.
We need more likes on his post.
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I’ve been trying for sometime now to get clarification not on just what the expectations are supposed to be, but on what they actually are by investors. Understanding expectations is very important for knowing how one should invest in preparation for any event that occurs.
If one or some are trying to dampen the expectations of others, or otoh to amplify and overshoot them, I think those are important things to try and understand.
Richard’s post which is now a sticky and has 36 likes, shows the slide of commercialization timelines. The first item of that is completed prototypes and the timeline is the second half of 2022.
It does not extend to the first half of 2023. This is more than just a vague update about progress. Do you acknowledge this or not?
https://investorshub.advfn.com/uimage/uploads/2022/11/25/ilyyxTRL.PNG
Do you guys literally not understand that you can purchase more shares when the price drops? Do really want to own less shares than more shares? Over the long haul the shorts providing discounted shares is of benefit to the longs that are buying them. It does not change the science; it does not change the foundries. Sure, if financing is happening that is not a good thing. Do I wish they would make shorting illegal yes. But as long as it is I'll use it to my benefit and buy when they sell because I know the longs aren't selling, not at this stage rather than a day trader it is best for me to lock up the shares.
The short game is designed to frustrate the longs I just don't let it take years off my life worrying about it and use it to my advantage then thank them. Take that however.
Just looked the shorts reported returning 321k down from 17.5 million to 17.2. They no doubt will borrow more this morning and yes if they make a play and temporarily drop the price, I'll buy a few, I don't need more but I'll take some.
Someday some will understand it is more what you do that matters, much more so than what you feel or hope.
X, not sure what I did wrong, honestly, I think it is because I did it right ; ).
It was a just about this time about 2 years ago. I didn't hear anyone complaining when I was buying tons and tons of shares, or when it hit 4 bucks and I sold a ton just to hold money aside just in case the price dropped to help secure the price, (which it did not) I literally took a hit of 4, 5, 6 bucks per share (cost me well over 1 or 2 M), but it was all for the good, I see the big picture, but I don't complain. Just Saying
Summary TIMELINE of Commercialization (see yellow sticky post)
(1) Alpha prototypes built in foundries, expected in the next five weeks.
(2) Beta's, literally any day now.
(3) Licensing agreement, also could be any day now.
(4) Tech transfer to foundries, expected any day after January 1st, 2023.
Revenue could be recognized in step 3, step 4, or shortly following step 4 when full scale production begins.
-Richard
Valuation is INSANELY LOW here, folks do the math yourself, but understand this first, LWLG makes the material systems in-house and an ounce of it can coat approx 10,000 devices, so just one gallon of it can coat a MILLION devices!!!!
The costs are MINISCULE the profits will be HUGE!!!!!
Investors have been told the margins can range up to 80% depending on how game changing the modulator is impacting the Transceiver performance!!!
GUESS WHAT???
LWLG's will come in near the TOP END!!!
I liken Shorts here to be most like the guy who enjoys watching train wrecks so much that he parks his own car on the tracks just ahead of a rapidly approaching train!!!
September 22, 2021
The world is moving towards tunability. The combination of tunable lasers and dense wavelength division multiplexing (DWDM) allows datacom and telecom industries to expand their network capacity without increasing their existing fiber infrastructure. Furthermore, the miniaturization of coherent technology into pluggable transceiver modules has finally enabled the widespread implementation of IP over DWDM solutions. Self-tuning algorithms have also made DWDM solutions more widespread by simplifying their installation and maintenance. Hence, many application cases—metro transport, data center interconnects, and even future access networks—are moving towards coherent tunable pluggables.
The market for coherent tunable transceivers will explode in the coming years, with LightCounting estimating that annual sales will double by 2026. Telecom carriers and especially data center providers will drive the market demand, upgrading their optical networks with 400G, 600G, and 800G pluggable transceiver modules that will become the new industry standards.
frob, spot on. The Devil has been Squashed, so to speak. December is looming soon.
If I wanted to be short LWLG as a trader, a synthetic would be my trading strategy. Long calls and short the common. Being long puts causes more decay than profit.
Right now I am not sure of the rate to short the stock but would assume it to be fairly high. Cannot imagine sophisticated traders placing huge bets because of the chance to be called in on their stock. There is a term shorting outside of the box and this might apply to LWLG. Longs have actual short positions in play. I would hazard a guess that a lot of the short play is this happening.
You can not like the stock as a trader but the risk/reward is clearly in play to the upside.
I am still wondering who can be short millions of shares of this company.
Two world records with two separate companies that published details. Devil be gone.
How do you know it’s superior when this company has never published a full suite of specs on their material.
Why are they hiding the details? Could it be because it’s nothing special and if they did share the details the share price would suffer?
Hmmm. The devil is in the details…
#scam
LWLG continues to move forward and so does the goal post. Exciting and is a train wreck.
Dusty, I kind of expect and agree with you that LWLG has much more potentials and faster we would get profits into our pockets if we decide to do so.
Because of my lucky investments on LWLG as backing psychologically, I took on some bets there. The mergers proposals there has one fascinating warrants I couldn’t resist, I have now control millions of merged stock shares before any reverse split if any, without heavy capital outlays now.
The mergers are not yet completed but I am willing to gamble that it will be completed as scheduled.
You need to click on Steve's 2022 shareholder video up above in the stickies from a laptop type computer and Listen to the entire presentation begging to end.
Thanks
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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:
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:
Publication Number | Title |
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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:
Publication Number | Title |
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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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