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Also wondering how many flights and room cancellations are now in the works.
The stock reminds me of the ship that hit the Frances Scott Key Bridge not too long ago.CEO is clueless now on what to say after misleading shareholders in Dec..Shareholders working overtime on the bridge to pay for their losses holding this turd. Finally the shitty fuel causes a malfunction in the engines and Marcelli attempts to steer it by himself. Results speak for themselves.
No more adulation conferences for the Vulcan so he can now go into hiding. If this crap is trading in the 2's when the AGM comes calling, I will make the prediction he does not show up at all. Marcelli will try to sell Asian cuisine to the shareholder base while X will get up and hold a seminar on short side investing. The only positive for the Delaware crowd will be wife beaters and ripped jeans allowed for the dress code. That is their version of a tux.
I see them short them one day, then disappear overnight to who knows where. Naked shorts.
The brokers will be one the hook because some owns them, but who knows what that catalyst will be.
X.
Short Interest in LWLG....looks like it is dropping??...Any thoughts on whether they are continuing to reduce their SHORT positions, OR are they having a hard time getting more shares??
Short Interest 19,958,549 shares - source: NASDAQ
Short Interest Ratio 35.70 Days to Cover
Short Interest % Float 16.79 % - source: NASDAQ (short interest), Capital IQ (float)
https://fintel.io/ss/us/lwlg
Merrill Lynch was well known back in the mid 70's for churning your account when the commissions were $100 to $150 a trade. I would sometimes get calls three times a day.
One of the worst financial advisors I ever had worked for Merrill Lynch. He told me he was going to retire off of AOL Stock. Were you his chart reader?
Who cares. It's just a roadmap and it was just created meaning any technology coming from this is years away.
#scam
I find it hilarious the the dupe retail longs here who have been funding insiders paychecks for 30 years while nothing ever comes to fruition believe they are smarter than the 20+ million short share position. Longs are investing on feelings and hope while the shorts have done extensive investigative work on the company and it's technology using real money.
The shorts have hired and placed on retainer the independent analysts, the private investigators, talked to the foundries, talked to other private companies doing the same thing as Vaporwave, met with the scientists in the field, put people in place at ML's dog and pony shows/conferences, and have way more to lose if they are incorrect.
There will be NO short squeeze. They will disappear into the night in dark pools if anything ever comes close to coming to fruition. It will be a buy signal for longs if the short position ever drops below 5%.
#scam
Where is the capitulation volume from breaking the $3.75 MA????
No volume is a REALLY big problem for the shorts. You dumdums shorted the living sh#t out of this company and made 3 rather big mistakes
1) Assumed every Micro-Cap CEO is nothing but a used-car salesman and didn't bother to read up on our beloved CEO's resume, industry contacts, patent prowess and expert witness experience
2) Assumed any and all retail investors would succumb to your volatility induced price fluctuations and become traders (A game that 99.9% of retail investors lose) Whatever # the FLOAT shows on your screens is DRAMATICALLY overstated!!
3) Didn't investigate the resolve, belief in the science and LONG TERM INVESTOR makeup of current shareholders as well as the belief of the enormous potential of a fully vetted Polymer by the DATA/TELECOM industry (as well as numerous other verticals over the next few years)
WE AIN'T SELLING!!!
GOOD LUCK TO ALL LONGS ONLY!!!
April 25, 2024 — Release of new chapter for the IPSR-I 2024 Roadmap, offering invaluable insights into the future of integrated photonics.
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The IPSR-I 2024 Roadmap depicts a clear trajectory for the development of Photonic Integrated Circuits (PICs) technology and outlines essential system requirements. By aligning the entire supply chain from research to end users, the integrated photonics industry will be able to drive volume manufacturing of PICs.
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He always said that he was of with a factor of 10. It's way more than that and even that wasn't true...
Shorts returned 2.5 million shares and now we are at a 52 week low.
Do yourselves a favor, longs, don't read this crap.
We have the goods, it's a matter of which Tier 1 will be first to buy.
Chart reader was on my ignore list after his first post… 100% waste off time
Thanks for you contributions Jeunke!
The term insult is very broad. So you say that in your life you have never ever insulted someone in any shape or form
OT: Carbon based chips could be to replace silicon based chips. Carbon based chips do not need EUV lithography machines, need only lower end DUV lithography machines to make the chips.
Besides, carbon based chips have edges over silicon based chips in functionality. They are talking on speeds and power consumption advantages.
Yes, I retired in 1992 and used exponential moving averages in my engineering work. They were first developed by Robert Brown while working at Texas Instrument.
Here is some history on EMA:
https://www.mcoscillator.com/learning_center/kb/market_history_and_background/who_first_came_up_with_moving_averages/
The late Steve Bigalow's trading group, developed the 8 EMA as the buy/sell line in trading. Steve's Thursday night webinar's are still posted on his website:
https://stephenbigalow.s3.amazonaws.com/Thursday+Recordings/stock-chat-9723.mp4
Normal people dont insult. We are educated people ….
X993231..... How's the shorts ? I remember Wen this stock was sat at $9 and the shorts where 5% heavier than now.. and here it is at $3.60! Longs have been trimming back shares for 18 months now. Fact! Stop blaming shorts. Blame lebby and his eyes
Pls insult me with names. Pls call me prototype. Coz he is my hero. I wish that one day i can repeat mysrelf the same amount as he.
Didnt you say this already today ? You repeat everything ? Because you have to post and dont have any inspiration anymore ?
Dont forget Lebby only managed to do his basic duties. Thats what a base salary means. He failed miserably reaching his targets. He only received 30% of his target bonus.
So to conclude he did his daily basis tasks succesfully but wasnt able to reach his targets.
Exactly. ILL QUOTE YOU. "News can change everything overnight, meaning that if news comes out, what I am about to explain will go out the window." I call that an eraser statement. Many investors here spend thousands every year just doing due diligence on this and have for years and years.
So when news it comes out it will jump so fast that the shiny object guys will be left out in the cold.
Many of these folks here have between 100k and 2 million shares. They can not exactly sell and buy back in 5 minutes.
I have one account that I'm rolling to a Roth so I do that at the end of the red days.
X. Nice day.
When folks are first investing of course they can move in and out, but after a while you can not.
Was your company generating revenue 15 years ago ???
Tesla's cybertrucks also left the production line. People assumed there* no issues. Still a total recal.
Dont state that there cant be no issues. A company never gives 100% garantees. Can only imagine* the liability claims if they do that and something goes wrong.
You give out false and misleading statements
You said In few weeks ..you will ask again if its still an issue..that means it is ..or are you talking about another area or product
Confirmed !! Solved or not
I admire chart readers. But this is too good to be true. people half as good would have long retired.
Checked Lebby’s compensation after coming home, It’s higher and about what I made 15 years ago. Very reasonable compensation for a CEO managing a high tech innovative company,
Think1st, when 200 mm wafers are leaving the production line you may assume these issues are solved, In fact Lebby confirmed that several times now at different occasions,
20 was a mirage and was over quickly. The only people that were allowed to sell were the Belgians and Proto as they put in their requests first. The big short started with the infamous Vanguard purchase in the 18 dollar range. We also had the Vulcan make sure to announce the share price with a smug look on his face during some garbage interview. Amazing he does not say where the share price is now when conducting a fireside chat at the mental institution.
from Merrill to Pru-Bache is down hill
Why is your name "Polymer" if you are a disbeliever?
HERE'S WHAT THE BELIEVERS DON'T UNDERSTAND AND STRUGGLE TO EVEN FATHOM AS POSSIBLE:
First: Instead of just newcomers, I'm going to address ALL readers of this post to challenge themselves to be as unbiased as possible, as I do believe the worst is yet to come and it could get very ugly. I hope those who typically ignore my warnings somehow find these words before it is too late. I'm probably nearing the end of doing this as I actually feel sorry for those that don't listen. If you could just put aside your assumptions about me, and pretend this was written by a trusted friend, you might save yourself a lot of grief.
Try to fathom these realities:
Dr Lebby KNEW at ASM 2021 that they were nowhere near to commercialization, but he led investors to think it was happening in a big way that year, and he, Marcelli, and ALL the directors greatly profited while investors were left thinking a massive deal could happen any day.
Dr Lebby KNEW at ASM 2022 that they were nowhere close to having a complete PDK at a single foundry, but because he said nothing distinguishing between front and back-end, he led investors to think that multiple PDKs would be completed and probably would result in a joint foundry partnership announcement by the end of the calendar year.
Dr Lebby KNEW at ASM 2023 that they were nowhere close to having a deal from foundry work because he knew they STILL hadn't gotten anyone to fabricate a successfully poled 200mm wafer, but he led investors to think that had been done long ago and that all that was left was running reliability tests on the resulting perk-based modulators.
You now have 3 years in a row of EVIDENCE that what I'm saying about credibility is not conjecture or "twisting" of information and is straight-forward FACT. Anyone can review those ASMs to fact check the above. But for some, it's still not enough.
That is why some investors perhaps shouldn't look Dr Lebby in the eyes, as they tend to get dazzled. The best con men are really good at it. He's likable. He's authoritative. He's got that great British accent, and the quiet confidence. And with his knowledge he can talk circles around any of us. So, if his allegiance to shareholders is compromised in any way, the in-person test may not be a good idea because the smiles and non-answers that sound good don't tell us anything and may only serve to lead one on in a "confidence man" deal. As I said recently this skeptical view goes beyond this board and into the industry more than you might imagine. Do your own DD if you don't believe it.
The most recent Antwerp meeting just serves to illustrate this problem. He can say things like "everything is ready" on one hand and "PICs are under construction" on the other, and then laymen try to interpret and botch it up. This is why secret meetings and emails are a really bad idea. They contribute to confusion and distrust within the investment community. More importantly, they are a waste of time because anything that could affect the share price (which includes non-verbal cues) REQUIRES public disclosure in a filing or PR or social media. Since that didn't happen, he either violated the law, or just used his "confidence man" persona to create more confusion. These meetings should NEVER take place with a legitimate publicly traded company. The ASM is more than enough.
Even if you still just can't bring yourself to face the above facts, at least see the most recent TELLs that can't be disputed which suggest they are either falling behind or are not near as close as hoped:
1. The top 2 only received 1/3 of their target bonuses in 2023. With how well their directors get treated, you KNOW things were pretty bad when that happens.
2. Other companies are already in the marketplace for 800gpbs (Marvel, NVIDIA), and OpenLight showing near 400gpbs for crystals (ie there may be no need for EOP).
3. 6 months of demos that aren't even a product is a TELL that after all of this time not even one transceiver company is excited enough to make a move on creating even an initial demo.
4. New Tier1s is a TELL by his own words: Any new Tier1s they may be talking to is another 18 months to deal fruition based on his funnel slide...maybe far longer, and that's if it is even successful: when showing that slide he stated he started the process not 18 months prior but in 2017 which at the time was over 5 years prior.
MrLWLG101 - is actually on point about one thing when he asks:
BUT WHAT ABOUT ALL OF THE NEW HIRES????
If the truth be told that probably is the MAIN thing longs are holding to as tangible evidence at this point.
I think the new hires IS a good thing, but it mainly serves 2 purposes: First, to create more materials for the Polariton agreement, which is not going to be ubiquitous at any near date: Plasmonics is still far off. And second, to try and satisfy the testing requirements. Obviously, the testing required for reliability must be extensive. How much we still are not being told.
As such, while it is a step forward in certain respects, it just doesn't mean they are on the verge of commercialization. We don't know what all they are testing, how much more testing will be needed, or if the industry will even care once it is done. We DO know that the $5m or so was easily covered by their $26m of cach from LPC stock sales to investors, so why not? : they expanded because they could and because it was needed as a NEXT STEP. But that's all anyone really can say at this point because nobody knows how many steps there are to the top of the winding staircase.
SO anyone hanging their hat on the new hires while completely rationalizing away the continuous misguidance and/or ambiguous guidance that unfortunately has DEFINED Lightwave Logic since they first went public is not doing themselves a favor and they will continue to be perplexed when the market does not validate their own views and convictions. The only solution for those people is to face the reality that I've tried to help uncover so they can then recalibrate their own expectations to something more realistic.
I sincerely wish longs Good Fortune Someday (hint?), because I think they will need it if they don't recalibrate, and soon.
And to any newcomers reading this - know that there is a long story here that, while certainly interesting, is not pretty so be informed before you let the temptation of "low" relative price keep you from thinking it can't go far lower than it already has. This still trades about 9x higher than its historical market cap and yet shareholders imo are almost as in the dark overall under Dr Lebby as they have always been under the 4 preceding CEOs.
Disclaimer: All of the above are my opinions of the reality. Do your own DD.
I never said that.
From 20 down to 3.62. The shorts have been cleaning up for 2 years now. New shorts may still have to cover but those that shorted at 20 made $$$$$$ and are probably out by now.
Let’s go green today!!! Ha ha
Please speak to kcco
He seems to think reliability or stability is still an issue.
I bought some shares at $3.60
And not happy with price falling to these levels
Let's see what happens
Why would I care what you do?
By the way and for the sake of information. I have been doing charts for 47 years and I was trained by the best in the business, as I worked for Merrill Lynch and Pru-Bache in the 80's and I even became one of the official tech analysts for Pru-Bache in the Southeast sector (one of 4). In addition, I have been trading my own account for the past 19 years and have sharpened my skill to the nth degree. As such, I consider myself to be in the top 1% of Chart readers in the world. I hope the ones you do not have on ignore, offer what I offer.
Good luck to you.
Chart reader. It may come as a surprise we have our own chart readers. So you don’t add any additional value. If you don’t mind I put you on ignore.
LD MICRO REPLAY NOW AVAILABLE!!!!
https://ldinv14.sequireevents.com/recording?session_id=7c04c9bb-df53-4ece-9dce-3d27956fe60e
In short: reliability testing is no more a concern for the tier 1´s
https://stocktwits.com/JoeriGoethuys/message/570255316
Spekkie said, When I asked whether the products were ready and if any issues were outstanding, he (Lebby) 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 that the reliability testing is no longer a concern for the Tier 1's to do business with LWLG is HUGE HUGE HUGE, this has been the #1 issue that has plagued Polymer commercialization for its 40 year history!! And yes I have confirmation from multiple sources that this is truly the case now!! Investors already had known how ironclad the data had become from the recent presentations slides presented at ECOC in late 2023 and then again even more so at the OFC in March 2024!!!
Lebby LD Micro was an incredible presentation using these Slides, here were my takeaways, the replay should be available soon
1) ETH Zurich has set independent 3rd party world record performance with LWLG Polymers running at 400Gbs per lane enabling 4 lane 1600gbs!!!
2) The Customer Funnel slide is updated and now showing greater than 20 Prospects and greater than 10 Leads, where in the ASM presentation it was only greater than 12 Prospects and 5 Leads, so about DOUBLED since the ASM!!!!
3) Lebby showed the 200mm wafers and talked again how LWLG is commercial ready for mass commercialization of 800gbs, remember Lebby has LWLG implementing at SEVERAL large Foundries!!
4) Lebby showed that Perk 6 is NOW ready for Licensing !!!
5) Lebby expects much more Licensing activity in 2024 forward
6) Lebby again pounded the table on the "ease of Integration" and how you simply drop the LWLG technology into those little pluggable boxes!!
7) Lebby also said that the PULL has become so great at this point instead of being "pulled along" it feels more like we are being "dragged along"!!
The April 2024 Investor Slides are up on the LWLG website, here
https://api.mziq.com/mzfilemanager/v2/d/307dbc8b-e212-48ba-9968-8cef3f6b5188/683426d1-5a08-bc3a-6df3-ce127bd5ef17?origin=2
Replays become available around a week after the event as the videos require editing in some cases and also the uploading process takes some time.
Once available, you will see the "replay" button next to the company name in the agenda at https://ldinv14.sequireevents.com/.
Thanks,
Sequire Team
Put simple for everybody to understand:
there are 21 Mio shares in high demand over and above the current supply of shares and this already for months.
Lesson number 1 for first class high school pupils in economics, if demand is greater than supply prices must go up.
Imagine shorting this from $8 and still winning. I'm absolutely ecstatic with lebby. Looks like he's funding another year of grifting through jeunke and the Belgium believers... With a little help from LPC. Repetitive but it works. $1.80 for September! Make this a sticky .. along with all my other post over last two years! I see straight through your carrot game. #thetruth
low volume high frequency manipulation continues, it's a no brainer to see it for yourself if you watch the trading, the weekly/monthly candles are what count here, 21 million Short grifters have no escape they will NEVER get a volume capitulation, Lebby as Spekkie posted today from hearing in the Belgium Lebby meeting
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
Longs are being throttled here, I am limited with no reason given so I can't post the facts with links, but the Shorts and FAKE Longs are allowed to mudsling at me and other Longs here NONSTOP!!!
Fact is LWLG has multiple products already!! they have multiple versions of it's Perk Polymer, the latest being Perk 6, now available for Licensing, in addition they have a 200Gb modulator that is now capable of being produced at several large Foundries on 200mm Wafers including the Poling being performed at Wafer scale something Shorts said was impossible, Lebby has told investors that Customers could use these modulators in quantities of 4 per Transceiver device to produce an 800Gbs Transceiver currently, but the preference of the large Transceiver companies (Cisco etc) would be to use the single chip modulator array (4x200) which is still under construction but Lebby announced publicly at PECC that it would be ready sometime in 2024, but the individual modulators would be used in Sampling now while the single chip modulator array (4x200) would be used in mass commercialization, Lebby is still on track with his Timeline of Customer Acceptance and Ramp in 2024 and has not backed down on his SAM/SOM guidance, Shorts are the LYING SCAMMERS period!!
Remember that it is because of the following two main reasons that Tier 1 interest has skyrocketed in recent months
1) the early 2024 "Big Milestone" achieved of success in Mass Production of LWLG modulators on large Foundries 200mm Wafers
2) the INCREDIBLE reliability/stability data collected/presented at ECOC 2023 and then even more so at OFC in March 2024
Investors have learned INCREDIBLE Developments in 2024 so far!!! here is a summary of things investors have learned form OFC in March 2024, and Lebby's LD Micro Interview in April, as well as Lebby's Belgium visit/presentations in April
1) Lebby has LWLG modulators being implemented at SEVERAL large Foundries on 200mm Wafers now beginning in early 2024!! Lebby declared it a "BIG MILESTONE"!!!
https://investorshub.advfn.com/boards/read_msg.aspx?message_id=174278606
2) Lebby has achieved Volume Scale Poling on 200mm Wafers!!! (successfully able to Pole Thousands of Devices at a time!!)
3) Lebby's LWLG team of seven completed demonstrations at OFC to over 20 potential Customers!! NDA's now estimated at 40 companies
4) 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
5) The Customer Funnel slide is updated and now showing greater than 20 Prospects and greater than 10 Leads, where in the ASM presentation it was only greater than 12 Prospects and 5 Leads, so about DOUBLED since the ASM!!!!
6) at OFC Google had a shout out to (LWLG) EOP on their slide for hetero integration.
https://investorshub.advfn.com/boards/read_msg.aspx?message_id=174276893
7) KCC reported "the transceiver partner is a giant company that is dedicating a lot of their own resources to LWLG’s development."
https://investorshub.advfn.com/boards/read_msg.aspx?message_id=174279401
8) Lebby also showcased that LWLG's Perk 6 is NOW ready and available for Licensing !!!
9) Lebby reported that 3rd party ETH Zurich set world record performance with LWLG Polymers running at 400Gbs per lane enabling 4 lane 1600gbs!!! This ensures LWLG ALREADY capable to meet the future Roadmap
10) The response from the Tier 1's is so overwhelming such that Lebby is 100% focused on SEVERAL Tier 1's who are battling it out for Lebby/LWLG's time and attention to bring 4x200 powered Transceivers to market ASAP!!
Folks this is a Cinderella story 40 years in the making!!!
For OVER 40 YEARS the Industry has tried UNSUCCESSFULLY!!
IBM, Intel, Boeing, Lockheed Martin, DuPont, AT&T Bell Labs, Honeywell, Motorola, GE, HP, 3M, and others in addition to numerous Universities and U.S. Government Agencies, DARPA, DOD, etc have all attempted to produce high-performance, high-stability electro-optic polymers
The Industry combined has spent literally in the Billions R&D $$ UNSUCCESSFULLY trying to do what LWLG has done!
LWLG's technology has been successfully developed in much less time than what the Industry spent, and at a cost less than 5% of what the Industry spent screwing around with unstable fragile molecules for 40 years!
RIDDLE ME THIS >> WHY WOULD THE INDUSTRY SPEND BILLIONS AND BILLIONS OF $$ ON SOMETHING THEY DIDN'T DESPERATELY WANT???????
I am going to take the time to express what happens to stocks when support levels are broken, so that you can understand the thinking that goes into the minds of the people that know how things trade.
First of all and before I begin, let me clarify something. News can change everything overnight, meaning that if news comes out, what I am about to explain will go out the window. Then again, news about a company only comes out a few times a year and the computers and algorithms trade daily, meaning they do not worry and trade off of news or expectation of news.
Having said that, let me explain how things work.
When a support level breaks, the computers and algorithms stop supporting the stock and often they short it. That means that if you are a buyer, you are fighting the big money and that usually means you will lose.
After a support level breaks, the computers and algorithms do NOT become buyers until a new support level is built. How does that happen? Lets use this break of support at 3.77 and say that it goes down to 3.50 (not 2.00 or 1.75 but only down $.23 cents). Okay, you got out at 3.69 (for example) but you still like the stock. Okay, it stops at 3.50 and pops back up to $4.00 and you are ruing the fact you got out at 3.69. Well, the one thing that is almost a guarantee (unless news comes out) is that the computers and algorithms will not step up to buy at 4.00 (they never chase stocks) as they know that to build a support level, the break of support low at 3.69 and the drop down to 3.50, that low needs to be tested successfully, and that means a drop down to 3.55 or 3.60. meaning you could get back in even below 3.69 and miss nothing. This is a computer and algorithm law that they follow religiously as these big traders are NOT in the speculating business, they are in the business of trading with taking "only" small risks and that means they do not chase.
Now, this example is with just a small drop in price but breaks of support usually means bigger drops that just from 3.77 to 3.50, meaning that if you did not get out at 3.69, if the stock drops down to even $3.00, your account is suffering a 30% loss (down from 3.69) that you could have prevented.
Do you understand now?
If I believe the company and its technology and value, I do not take the price, the manipulation, the rumors, the shorts into account and I simply hold the shares. This has already yielded a lot for me on several occasions.
Everything else is BS to me.
Lol Clearly, lwlg doesnt understand it either....no product to date lol
Its not $4. Its $3.60
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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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