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So you gave his initiative of creating polymer modulators in foundries less than a year before calling for his head?
Reminds me of the punchline of an old joke “patience jackass patience”.
Me too!! Lol
Only I did mine for the Vein institute
They conduct studies on dopes
I put in a buy order just for you.
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I've been telling shareholders for several years now that they need to hold Lebby accountable for his missed deadlines, missed timelines, and inability to commercialize rather than fawning over what a genius he is.
We need a CEO who can actually successfully commercialize. Lebby is not that man.
Predictable manipulation, and I'm tired of it! Lebby needs to do something about it! We've gone through this long enough!
Your not enjoying the overly pumped 2024 ramp up ?? Can't have news if your not completing anything. Lebby is probably still looking for a pen to sign those December deals. 🤣🤣😂 . So 20+ Tier 1s beating the door down months ago and not one has committed to anything so far.
Sounding a lot like Marcellis days as CEO. Always next quarter but everything is going great. No issues
16 months since our first commercially accepted deal 🤣🤣🤣. Love that spin and not 1 update of any kind.
Damn, POET already pulling ahead with big partners and big potential sources of revenue. No NDAs for them, huh, weird. Didnt think it was possible to do business and be transparent with investors? At least the promised ramp up is well underway, am I right?
The most boring stock on the naz
yes, the opening trade.
Expiration date of options, index options and futures. 3rd Friday September .
QTY 191,505 share trade to begin trading today?
Grifter Shorts need to RETURN 21 MILLION BORROWED_SHARES!!!! Then tell me about the PPS, it will be higher than the $20 high set back in 2021!!! Tier 1 deals coming in 2024 Shorts hourglass sands of time are waning rapidly!!!
If Shorts think that 108 million Retail Longs are going to capitulate their shares NOW just because they are manipulating the price lower with their low volume high frequency manipulation games, they have an even more serious mental issue than their knuckleheaded continuous stream of bullshit posts here would indicate!! No, instead the 108 million Retail Longs that have been PERFECTLY STEADY here for the LAST 3 YEARS will only GROW in numbers as the manipulation games continue up until the day Lebby drops the first Tier 1 bomb on them, then like all good little cockroaches they will all be scrambling for the EXIT at the same time trying to escape their own annihilation!!
If the Institutions & Shorts are supposed the smart money then you better be buying LWLG hand over fist because these are EXACTLY who has been funding the LWLG Operating Budget these past 3 years, Lewrock put the data together showing that in the last 3 years Retail Investors have remained perfectly steady at 108 million shares ownership, LWLG has been 100% financed on the backs of Institutions & Shorts!!
WAKE ME WHEN 21 MILLION SHORTS HAVE COVERED BEFORE LEBBY INKS THE FIRST OF MANY TIER 1 DEALS!!!!
Lebby's TIMELINE remains the SAME since 2019 at least!!!! here is a link to the 2019 ASM presentation and Lebby at 27:27 shows the TIMELINE to Customer Acceptance and Ramp, albeit in 2019 Lebby had NOT put the DATES on his TIMELINE yet!!!
not amazing at all, legacy EML's will be super power hungry losers at 1600/3200 so they want to try and SQUEEZE in with a company working with next-gen products, KCC already explained the problem with their technology here you must have missed it!!
85Ghz and PAM6 will not win the 400G per lane market. It'll likely be first to market, like today's 200G per lane announcements largely using InP EML. I bet a module using those lasers/modulators is pushing 40-50 Watts. That's insane. We'll see data in 2026 it sounds like. EOP (and TFLN, too) will be drastically more energy efficient than InP for 400G/lane. EOP certainly lower cost/simpler designs as well.
Cool news for POET though. They need to tell the market who has rights to the revenue for their 800G+ optical engines. So far, their Chinese JV has rights to nearly all the revenue from their previously announced collaborations. Not many people understand that or are willing to acknowledge it. Those sales never show up as revenue for POET and that cash stays in China with the JV.
I wonder what other 1.6T+ announcements we'll see next week with ECOC. It's already starting to brew with many announcements this week from others. Again...mostly InP based and a couple SiPh based.
LWLG should be winning a post-deadline award I'm thinking. I saw a couple technical papers that could include LWLG, too.
https://investorshub.advfn.com/boards/read_msg.aspx?message_id=175111440
Amazing, isn't it, how POET doesn't have super-super-duper secret NDAs that prevent them from ever, ever, ever, ever naming the companies they're working with?
That sound you hear is yet another cheerleader fiction crumbling to the ground.
We need actual news . Enough of the hype over presentations
Monday morning at 10.00 CET Lebby speaks at the ECOC industry event in Frankfurt. The biggest event of the year after OFC. It will be a legitimate occasion to reveal publicly where the company stands and where it is heading with its technology and devices,
What a miserable life you must have !
Worse than him missing deadlines were the two crappy suspect deals supposedly done on the days of the previous two AGM's. That should have been the tipoff to investors that they conjured something up to mollify the sheeple. He would have been better off saying nothing the past four years. There is beyond zero speculation in the company. It is flat out amazing we have zero buying interest. You can post as many articles, pump pieces you want but the reality is LWLG has had a severe credibility issue for a long time and Lebby is the latest one to join the bunch. I do admit that without him the company would be worthless. Marcelli and Z were just awful caretakers although Z seemed like a nice guy.
Nice guys:
1)Zelibor
2)Lebby
3)Leonberger
4)Miller
5)Franky So(if you say so)
The other side:
1)Gumby
Yes I agree about some news. Ubiquitous was three years ago, I think now we need “epic”
85Ghz and PAM6 will not win the 400G per lane market. It'll likely be first to market, like today's 200G per lane announcements largely using InP EML. I bet a module using those lasers/modulators is pushing 40-50 Watts. That's insane. We'll see data in 2026 it sounds like. EOP (and TFLN, too) will be drastically more energy efficient than InP for 400G/lane. EOP certainly lower cost/simpler designs as well.
Cool news for POET though. They need to tell the market who has rights to the revenue for their 800G+ optical engines. So far, their Chinese JV has rights to nearly all the revenue from their previously announced collaborations. Not many people understand that or are willing to acknowledge it. Those sales never show up as revenue for POET and that cash stays in China with the JV.
I wonder what other 1.6T+ announcements we'll see next week with ECOC. It's already starting to brew with many announcements this week from others. Again...mostly InP based and a couple SiPh based.
LWLG should be winning a post-deadline award I'm thinking. I saw a couple technical papers that could include LWLG, too.
Time for LWLG to put out some news that actually has meaning. We shall see.
POET and Mitsubishi Electric Collaborate to Develop 3.2T Optical Engines for AI Networks
TORONTO, Sept. 19, 2024 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) –
https://ca.finance.yahoo.com/news/poet-mitsubishi-electric-collaborate-develop-113500983.html
POET Technologies Inc. (“POET” or the “Company”) (TSX Venture: PTK; NASDAQ: POET), the designer and developer of the POET Optical Interposer™, Photonic Integrated Circuits (PICs) and light sources for the data center, tele-communication and AI markets, today announced it has entered into a collaboration with Mitsubishi Electric Corporation (“Mitsubishi Electric”) to co-develop integrated optical engine chipsets for 3.2T pluggable transceivers, a highly sought-after product for optical connectivity in the rapidly growing artificial intelligence networking market. POET and Mitsubishi Electric will jointly support product demonstrations with major customers.
“Mitsubishi Electric is committed to ensuring we give our customers the technological advantage to maintain their positions as industry leaders in their own sectors. We believe POET’s optical engines will open the possibility of creating new products where electronics photonics convergence is successfully achieved at an advanced level of integration between InP and Si-based interposer, which take us and our valued customers into the next generation of data networking for AI and hyperscale data centers,” says Yasuhiro Yamauchi, General Manager, Optical Device Department at Mitsubishi Electric. “This promises to be a momentous technological achievement when it is unveiled.” …
Here's a preview of Lebby's speech next week:
"We've never been so excited! Never mind silly things like customers, partners, revenues, deals, or even a finalized technology! We're excited! Doesn't that count as a CEO?"
9 months later and still no update on those deals he spoke about in his press release on December 4th. Boy did he miss read the room on that one. Must have gotten lost with the tech transfer deal he was on track to complete by 2022 ASM.😂🤣😅.
Close to 3 would be great today. Will
Buy some!!
Comprehensive review LWLG known Customer connections
The Customer Funnel slide was updated at the Safe Capital presentation in April 2024 just a few weeks after the OFC 200Gbs World Class demonstrations, this update showed greater than 20 Prospects and greater than 10 Leads, where in the 2023 ASM presentation it was only greater than 12 Prospects and 5 Leads, so it about DOUBLED since the 2023 ASM!!!! Lebby said the OFC demos generated such overwhelming interest from the Tier 1's that he was forced to pick and choose which to work with because of LWLG's limited resources, during the 2024 ASM lab tours in May 2024 it was learned the number of NDA's was currently about 40 which is truly amazing, so now let's take a look at the potential Customers/Partners with known links to LWLG
Ok, lets start with Lebby's own words at who he expected the Customers to be in this TWST interview question,
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.
https://investorshub.advfn.com/boards/read_msg.aspx?message_id=174863599&txt2find=vertically%20integrated
AMF Foundry - First ANNOUNCED Foundry producing LWLG's technology on LARGE 200mm wafers capable of Millions of units annually, keep in mind it was AMF who wanted to go public with this relationship, do you really think that they would want to make it public if the PDK's were not 100% rock n' roll ready? NO, of course not!!
Our polymers are EASILY FABRICATED in silicon fabs 🡪 ideal for heterogenous integration!! (Slide 19)
https://api.mziq.com/mzfilemanager/v2/d/307dbc8b-e212-48ba-9968-8cef3f6b5188/cfe8be05-ce41-6208-b717-33e542d3eb77?origin=2
ECOC 9/23/24 Lebby "Commercial silicon foundry 200mm wafers where EO polymers HAVE BEEN easily integrated using standard PDKs."
Global Foundries - Anthony Yu when asked about New Materials instantly first words out of his mouth were "Optical Polymers" which was a reference to LWLG, he then went on to badmouth TFLN and BTO as having Safety Concerns within the Foundry Operations, and also NOT being EASILY INTEGRATED like LWLG Polymers
https://investorshub.advfn.com/boards/read_msg.aspx?message_id=175017811
Synopsis - Has re-posted multiple times on LinkedIn about LWLG Polymers
https://investorshub.advfn.com/boards/read_msg.aspx?message_id=175012972
Nvidia - Slides 13 and 14 contain a quote from a Tier 1 executive, presumably from Nvidia, stating how Polymers would be a perfect fit for enhancing Nvidia's InfiniBand
https://investorshub.advfn.com/boards/read_msg.aspx?message_id=174960259&txt2find=nvidia
Google - at OFC Google used a slide that showed EOP, and LWLG is the ONLY commercial grade EOP today!!
https://investorshub.advfn.com/boards/read_msg.aspx?message_id=175001766&txt2find=google
Arista - Andy B the Founder and Chair of Arista is on record having said he is open to integrating (LWLG) Polymers, he has been quoted as saying such low power modulators could reduce overall System power by 20%
https://investorshub.advfn.com/boards/read_msg.aspx?message_id=175004431&txt2find=arista
Intel/Ayars/Tower - there are white papers proving that EOP can overcome the challenges of silicon MRR's which without the Polymer spin coating each require their own special Heater IC's
https://investorshub.advfn.com/boards/read_msg.aspx?message_id=174277053&txt2find=intel%2Fayar
Polariton, Nokia (and now Infinera), ETH Zurich (Plasmonics)
https://investorshub.advfn.com/boards/read_msg.aspx?message_id=172982277&txt2find=plasmonics
Also, let's look at the FAQ's on the LWLG website here,
Companies like Arista Networks and Ciena make networking equipment with 400G ports that can take optical pluggable transceivers. These transceivers contain the sort of optics that Lightwave Logic makes. So these companies would be customers, or customer’s customers (if they buy their optics from a transceiver integrator like Lumentum or Finisar). Arista makes Ethernet switches which have 400G ports on the front panel.
https://www.lightwavelogic.com/resource-center/technical-faq/
and another thing Investors also know LWLG has been involved in Multi-Level Cross Functional projects with Tier 1's here with these Tier 1's,
https://investorshub.advfn.com/boards/read_msg.aspx?message_id=174656086&txt2find=cross%20functional
These are off the top of my head, I likely missed some others on this listing so it can be updated over time, but bottom line LWLG is deeply imbedded in the entire Industry food chain, and while still in stealth mode, all signs point to a grand emergence in 2024 with Tier 1 deal(s) right on schedule with Lebby's long-standing Timeline!!
Lebby is still on track with his long-standing Timeline of Customer Acceptance and Ramp in 2024 (see Slide 38 from 2022 ASM) and has not backed down on his SAM/SOM guidance, Shorts are the LYING SCAMMERS period!!
https://api.mziq.com/mzfilemanager/v2/d/23d26d3e-c498-431f-ba5c-2250e5f374cb/c1234fc8-c29c-4282-dc60-1afe2a8e4a95?origin=2
PECC October 22-23 Optica Photonic-Enabled Cloud Computing Industry Summit hosted by Synopsys has a TOP SHELF speaker list, check it out here
https://www.optica.org/events/industry_events/2024/pecc/program_speakers/
Investors keep in mind that Synopsys has been posting on LinkedIn about LWLG!!
Synopsys AGAIN posting about LWLG on LinkedIn!!
Synopsys Photonic Solutions
10,715 followers
Lightwave Logic, Inc. and Advanced Micro Foundry(AMF) have announced a collaboration to develop state-of-the-art polymer slot modulators using AMF's silicon photonics platform. This partnership has achieved record-breaking performance with modulators operating at sub-1V drive and data rates of 200Gbps PAM4, ideal for 800Gbps and 1.6T pluggable transceivers. The collaboration leverages Lightwave Logic's electro-optic polymers and AMF's standard manufacturing process on 200-mm wafers, marking a significant milestone in integrated photonics. This development aims to meet the growing demand for optical connectivity in large generative AI computing clusters.
https://ow.ly/BFEp50SiujM
#Photonics #SiliconPhotonics
see the original Synopsys post here
https://www.linkedin.com/feed/update/urn:li:activity:7208347797178236928/
and more times here
Synopsys reposted another Lightwave Logic article this morning. Quite interesting that a $90B company has posted about them on more than 1 occasion this week.
https://www.linkedin.com/posts/synopsysphotonicsolutions_200-gbps-heterogeneous-polymersilicon-photonic-activity-7183358130699870208-YQ_U
Synopsys also reposted the article below this morning. Some of the language in the Global Foundries portion of the article seems to resonate with me.
https://www.synopsys.com/photonic-solutions/e-news/2024-march.html#gf
Just going to put this here. Synopsys Foundry Spotlight: GF Fotonix
"Roadmap Solution (excerpt)
The GF Fotonix™ technology is targeted towards inter/intra-data center and photonic compute applications with future extensions planned for ancillary markets such as sensing and LiDAR. The base technology supports O-band based 100G solutions. Plans are in place to support 200G solutions. Future packaging feature enhancements, such as support for thru-silicon vias (TSV), tighter v-groove pitches, tighter pitch CuP and CuRxPads. The technology will also serve as a platform for the heterogeneous integration of novel materials in the future." (LWLG Polymers)
Synopsys has been at multiple LWLG hosted/attended conferences recently, one of the directors was at the San Francisco VIP conference Lebby hosted earlier in the year, they are definitely at the very least collaborating (GFS too)
Just a guess here/speculating:
GFS, Tower/intel, Nokia among a couple others were likely the earlier leads based on white papers. Google a lead based on their recent presentation(not sure if they were old or new) Nvidia based on a repost on LinkedIn I think they’re at least aware but haven’t seen much public connection. I’m sure there’s a few I’m not remembering but the rest I don’t remember any obvious connections. Smart photonics was another one I’ve heard of I think KC referenced them.
In the investor press at least 5-6 of the logos they show have referenced us in one way or another via whitepapers, presentations, reposts or interview mentions. The rest are quietly looking into this I’m sure
One key piece I liked is he mentioned they are less interested in tech transfer deals, likely only doing those if the 3rd party wants to use it for an auxiliary use such as Lidar which is out of their main focus. Means more money for us long term, likely going a very similar route business wise as OLED, mostly licensing type of deals.
https://www.reddit.com/r/LWLG/comments/1bzltei/daily_trading_action_and_general_discussion/?
What have you achieved so far?
Pinocchio is coming down to the wire with investors. If he fails to meet his 2024 deadline, then it is going to look terrible to the investment community. On the other hand he has zero credibility but a whole lot of empathy for the downtrodden. He cannot lose.
Yawn
It is up 2.8 and we are up 2.9. Numbers are all relative
Naz up 500 points and we get a dam nickel
If this stock is nothing, why putting so much effort in draining this stock Teddy etc. I understand when investing on the long term that you are positive as you believe in the capabilities of this new invention, but trying day by day to put this stock down exposes the shorters. Again why putting so much effort in negative postings? Ik know, the shorts are warning the longs as if they are g…, and do this for the sake of the longs. Thank you, but they don’t care about the longs they care about their own short positions.
There are already more than 20 million short stocks for quite some time. Why not more? I should say to Teddy; if you believe in what you say load up your short stocks
Is this considered low volume BS manipulation ??? Or is that just when we are in the red.
Exactly, in fact their rhetoric reduces the number of shares available for their own trade, create pent up demand of over 21 mio shares. Total demand is 141 mio shares and total supply is 120 mio. You don’t need a university degree to understand what will happen when the first profitable revenue will be in the books ( not necessarily announced). The predictability of their standardized messages is 100% , which is a good indication of their predicament. Shorts at this very moment are longs best allies.
Pumpkin and Ted are helpful if you are accumulating shares prior to the sales ramp. EOM
"This is an unprofitable speculative tech stock with little to no revenue"- on the surface it may appear so unless you look at the advancement of the polymer materials and how they will fit into the semiconductor industry needs for new materials in order to innovate.
"huge cash burn", Cash June 2022 was 24 million. Cash on June 2024 was 29 million (and still no debt). Sorry, I don't smell any smoke.
"and massive dilution" share count August 2022 112 million. Share count August 2024 120 million.. Up 9% over two years, not exactly massive and quite typical of small companies raising cash to grow. Difference largely relates to raising some needed cash for expansion.
So you object to LWLG employees getting paid as well? Don't most companies pay their employees? This is not a communist country.
Stop with the nonsense GP.
Who the hell knows Vein. I bet on the goo but got stuck with Gumby as the CEO courtesy of Phil Smith. It feels like a cancer you beat thru chemo and then it comes back years later.
Russell up 40 points
Nice! Thanks for sharing your T/A!
....share it fairly, but don't take a slice of my pie.
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That is how options grants should work, not as an entitlement, but as an incentive to execute and add to shareholder value for all shareholders. No performance, no reward. This is an indication of good corporate governance as well.
I just feel like the fuse will never be lit here again !!
Welcome aboard I'll put in a buy order now so let's see if it fills.
X. Why did choose this? I'm an old head so I like to keep up the investor base if possible. I proly know 100 investors here about half meet once a year, to brainstorm ask questions and do other investments, mostly private companies.
Your charts are worthless when dealing with a pre-revenue grifter stock. Save the predictions for when LWLG has a revenue stream behind it. To be fair though, your predictions are far better than X's spelling. skills.
Took a starter here for a long-term investment
Fine, Proto, we all understand that Lebby is known and respected in the world of photonics. That makes him a good scientist, not a good businessman. Now he needs to prove that he can sell LWLG’s polymers.
Nothing else matters to investors. Not panel engagements; not silly expert witness gigs; not Benzinga interviews; not his enthusiasm or hand gestures. He needs to get it done commercially. So far he’s failed.
Bad take. This is an unprofitable speculative tech stock with little to no revenue, huge cash burn, and massive dilution. Companies such as this are labeled junk by the market and currently remain out of favor. If you cant see that by todays action nothing will help you.
Insiders cashing paychecks are the only ones with the wind at their backs as they continue to release flatulence into shareholders faces. Smelly!
#scam
Just don’t understand Lebbys complete misdirection here .
His money his choice, had he sold then and bought back twice as many shares he wouldn't have had anything to do when he woke up in the morning while he was out. Reminds me of the loop on "money" by pink floyd, over and over again.
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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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