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Sorry about your balls there, Richard...
I am Richard Gere from Officer and a Gentleman. I got nowhere to go. And then I battle with Louis Gossett Jr. in the hectagon.
Must be good news. Posting on iHub is halted...
So there only sane people in the north, south and east?
🤦♂️
So why are you around? Morbid fascination?
When the stock drops, there are a million excuses. These posters are nauseating.
Sane people do not run Western society...
The conspiracy theory has broaden now to AI.
Any sane person will ban AI if it is so dangerous.
Damn and lwlg will be a major supplier for the AI sector. That means lwlg will be part of the conspiracy as well.
Sell now and stop complaining
Sell and go away
More like--- low volume deals-- low volume revenue ---high frequency BS
Sell and stop complaining
I believe that it is possible... maybe even probable... that every share traded today was AI controlled wash trading.
The manipulators can run their algos up and down the hill with out penalty.
Google just had a shout out to EOP(LWLG) on a slide for hetero integration. LinkedIn post from APC.
https://investorshub.advfn.com/boards/read_msg.aspx?message_id=174108464
This is the google slide! (middle picture is of EOP slot modulator)
https://www.linkedin.com/posts/advanced-photonics-coalition_fiberoptics-technology-innovation-activity-7178065757874913281-L2Oo?utm_source=share&utm_medium=member_ios
Modulators with low driving voltage, high bandwidth, and low loss.
They are also showing the same wafer
And “organic Material” the same picture on page 15 from LWLG
https://api.mziq.com/mzfilemanager/v2/d/307dbc8b-e212-48ba-9968-8cef3f6b5188/1bd96423-05f6-76f0-82d8-2a80d7a40691?origin=2
I can’t believe my eyes!
It is happening…
https://investorshub.advfn.com/boards/read_msg.aspx?message_id=174111281
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!!!
low volume high frequency manipulation again!! jeeez!!! only 360k shares traded and down 5% RIDONKULOUS!!! this report just in from underworld realm, many Shorts prayers to their many gods of illegal manipulation pleading for 20+ million shares at this PPS level to somehow "magically" Cover before Lebby drops the MOAB of giant Tier 1 delas on them!!!!
LWLG Eliminates Power Hungry & Expensive Driver Chip!!!
Lebby quote came from the Wall Street Transcript Interview (TWST) with Dr. Lebby - August 17, 2023
TWST: So you’re looking at value pricing, where the part might be more expensive, but you’re providing more performance and using less power, and as a result it’s going to be less expensive.
Dr. Lebby: Also, you’re saving the customer architectural IC designs. You don’t need driver chips and they are really expensive, way more than what a device would cost. And so, you’re providing that advantage to network operators.
https://investorshub.advfn.com/boards/read_msg.aspx?message_id=172679450First
What Lebby told investors in that interview is that the cost of the device, ie the 4x200 PIC Modulator Array chip is LESS than the cost of the Driver(s) that it ELIMINATES!!! And folks, LWLG's technology is the ONLY Next-Gen technology that CAN ELIMINATE the Driver(s)!!!!
Also let's not forget that the Driver(s) is/are power hungry, I know when I asked Bard it responded that it accounted for 40% of the power usage on 8x100 800Gbs and perhaps that is/was high but regardless the Driver(s) is/are known as being a big power user in the Transceiver so if you can eliminate the Driver(s) you are saving a lot of power!!
So what's that worth to the Transceiver companies? you guessed it.... A WHOLE LOT!!!
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!!!
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
Exactly!! meanwhile Longs are being throttled here, I can't post much while Shorts and FAKE Longs 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???????
Both will never happen. Will LWLG strike it big down the road. Probably but when is anyone's guess. I know that the way of funding this company should be changed. LPC and Marcelli are a cancer for stockholders and should be terminated ASAP. To be honest, the age of the management team in general is way too old. I hope the Vulcan brings in someone who can deal with a hostile takeover and get a great price for us.Someone with experience.
It is about time for X's daily rant on the shorts. It is akin to watching 90210 when Steve Sanders cousin was script into the series. That is called jumping the shark. The old guard has faded out on the message board. We need Vein to step in and restore order.
“You know they're not because
there would be rumors, their would be crazy buying, . . . “
This would 100% be the case.
The ‘true longs’ here comfort themselves with the idea that NDAs completely suppress this activity.
An unfortunate delusion.
At what point is Lebby forced into a confession that there is no product coming forward?
At what point do many here demand accountability of performance?
proto hasn't slowed down. he's one of those people who are incapable of owning what they say no matter
how often or how long they say it.
it looks like lightwave and lebby will get completely passed over. there is a global race to deal with energy needs and
if lwlg had what lebby says they have, companies would be negotiating hard. you know they're not because
there would be rumors, their would be crazy buying, and lebby wouldn't be skipping off to Antwerp to smile
and proclaim where it isn't relevant to the fortunes of the company at walterc's shindig.
another spec tech is about to...
What a terrible stock this is ...5% down WHYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYY? Every time the same and Lebby is not to hear and to see ...what a Terrible CEO this man
Why did he buy if he knew it was years away?????
Possibly true. At that time, however, it was impossible to know what the ground truth actually was. You had Lebby, Proto and many others. touting Lightwave’s commercialization was imminent and ready to roll. Remember deal time, deal time it’s here?
I suspect GP suddenly crows about selling at 15 because he wants to elevate his credibility as his credibility has been questioned for at least the three years I have read this board. With elevated credibility I think he believes his scam messages will have more of an affect.
They should be embarrassed at the dam meeting
was it you who retired early?
to then spend all that time on a board that sucks...
think about that....
total BS, hitting 20 was the blink of an eye, here's the VWAPS that tell the TRUTH
Here's the FACTS on LWLG trading, the VWAPS don't lie like the Shorts
Historical LWLG Price Data
______Period Open High Low VWAP Avg. Daily Vol Change %
1 Week__ 4.12 4.28 3.87 4.05 655,818 -0.02 -0.49%
1 Month 4.28 4.82 3.87 4.29 633,551 -0.18 -4.21%
3 Months 4.44 5.295 3.87 4.35 588,605 -0.34 -7.66%
6 Months 4.79 5.69 3.79 4.52 638,262 -0.69 -14.41%
1 Year__ 4.79 9.18 3.79 5.49 686,220 -0.69 -14.41%
3 Years 11.88 20.30 3.79 8.02 835,056 -7.78 -65.49%
5 Years 11.88 20.30 3.79 8.02 835,056 -7.78 -65.49%
I should have sold every dam share I own on the big run . Lessons learned
Guessing ??? Maybe stop guessing and start telling the truth ????
And bring some value and bs everyday !!!!
Probably you will be in the audience of the one man show, laughing with jokes you dont understand ….
The joker !!
The shorts have been making a killing since we hit 20. Imagine shorting LWLG at 20, 15,10 etc. Those shorts have covered by now.
Can you imagine that nobody cares what you say or think ??? Can you ???
As we true longs have our strategy of investing ???? Can you ???
Nobody gives a f*** what you believe !!!
But ….
Tell me ? I can almost wanted to add ‘ honestly ‘ … sorry for that …
Tell me ? Why do you spent hours each day on a board telling stupid things on a stock you dont own ??? Tell me ???
Because you tell bs, you are short and tell lies !!!!
But I must say you are funny and more funny every day …..
The joker !!!
I am guessing the flight cancellations have started today. By next week the AGM will be held at a gas station nearby. For entertainment X will show the awestruck guests how to skin and eat a squirrel. Proto will host a copy&paste section for the challenged and the Belgians will give advice on how to make hundreds of millions while your P&L goes into the abyss. Thrilling stuff and the lunch will be catered by J&M Food Services. Marcelli will get the lab people to serve squirrel pau chicken and raccoon dumplings 6% off.
Good things coming to Colorado.
Imagine a strategy where you buy and hold for a reasonable amount of time, for a reasonable amount of return. I know its tough. It's not the strategy of buying a penny stock, holding for 20 years, and putting your head in the clouds and dreaming of ubiquity.
You must start a one man show !!!! I’m sure there is an audience for you !!!
You get more pathetic by the post !!
The joker !!
Awwwww, you're cranky. Time for your diaper to be changed and a nap.
Mister high level has spoken !!! Be aware investors, this is the level of the shorts !!!! Can you imagine their investment strategy ???
The joker !!!
I could but I dont !!!! Chief kindergarten is speaking !!! And you have comment on our Ceo, I think he’s having a laugh with you at this ver moment !!!!
The joker had spoken ;))
I could, but I won't, because this board sucks. I'll give ya a hint--one's a small cap biotech that starts with "a". It's not a penny stock, so no one here will be interested in it.
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!!!
Post of the year.
The tour includes moving a laser light against a blank wall and watching the rabid cheerleaders chase it for fun and exercise.....many will have a heart attack...but the survivors do get the fireworks. No gifts. Gift giving is a one way street to Lebby/Marcelli only
So what happens if the gap is closed??
Down tot 3,45?
Name me 1 stock with a better risk/reward ratio
one
pretty good Ted. a little too close to the bone for the club, so you can expect the usual impotent blow-back.
at least you're having some fun.
Any long with a sizable position is trapped like a rat on a sinking ship. There’s not even enough liquidity here to dump 100,000 shares without sending the price crashing down 20%.
Trapped and praying for a miracle from the TROPE!
#scam
There is just zero interest. All these conferences and slide decks have done absolutely nothing. The industry knows this is years out if ever. If it were close and happening as the kool aid kids claim every techie and engineer would be piling into the stock and that simply is not happening.
Therefore it’s NOT HAPPENING!
#scam
Brutal day again ! The market isn’t even down much .
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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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