Photonics - General Science

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Steve, AWESOME must see!

Meint Smit, Photonic Integrated Circuits

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PhotonDelta Cooperative Explained

PhotonDelta is a European digital innovation hub that's creating an ecosystem around next generation chips that work with light instead of electrons. Photonics will scale faster if companies across the value chain work together. And that tipping points is now generating results.

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She is on my watchlist. 3D Hologram!

From Screen Queen to Imaging Innovator


Mary Lou Jepsen has led Facebook’s virtual reality efforts, advised Google’s Sergey Brin, and invented $100 laptops. Now she is turning her consumer electronics experience to the task of curing disease.

After decades of working in display divisions at some of Silicon Valley’s biggest companies, her goal is to shrink today’s massive MRI machines into wearable devices that continuously scan the body. Jepsen’s new company, Openwater, is developing technology that uses the way the body scatters infrared light to develop high-resolution images equal to those produced by an MRI. This is enabled by novel LCDs with pixels small enough to create holographic images, coupled with the use of body-temperature detectors and complex software. These LCDs are small and light enough that they could line a beanie or a bandage. The implications of a wearable body imaging system are significant for detecting and treating cancer, cardiovascular diseases, and even mental illnesses.

Join us as Mary Lou Jepsen discusses her Silicon Valley history, her company on the cutting edge of tech and medicine, and her vision for the future of body imaging and healthcare. Until mid-2016 she led advanced consumer electronics and virtual reality at Facebook and Oculus. Previously, she had a similar role at Google and Google X, where she was also a close advisor to Sergey Brin. She co-founded One Laptop per Child (OLPC) with Nicholas Negroponte, and was the lead inventor and architect of the $100 laptop. She holds a PhD in optical physics and an ScB in electrical engineering both from Brown University as well as an ScM in computational holography from the MIT Media Lab. She is an inventor on over 100 published or issued patents.

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After Moore’s Law — What?

http://www.eetimes.com/author.asp?section_id=36&doc_id=1331698

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Data Center Explosion Push for Fast Adoption of 25G

https://www.semiwiki.com/forum/content/6761-data-center-explosion-push-fast-adoption-25g.html

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Graham Reed, Silicon MZI Modulators

I still need to view these new found videos. I hoping to find some words about polymers....

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Meint Smit, Photonic Integrated Circuits

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Training Photonics Talent of Tomorrow in Twente

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The Case For IBM Buying Nvidia, Xilinx, And Mellanox

https://www.nextplatform.com/2017/02/07/case-ibm-buying-nvidia-xilinx-mellanox/

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Rick, is Lightwave's RW considered a Dielectric Waveguide?

http://farside.ph.utexas.edu/teaching/jk1/lectures/node118.html

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Rick, I have read through the BB Photonics patent application on PIC's

COMPOUND SEMICONDUCTOR PHOTONIC INTEGRATED CIRCUIT WITH DIELECTRIC WAVEGUIDE

http://patents.justia.com/patent/20170023733

If you have read it as well, what are your thoughts is relation to how many different ways there may possibly be to create a PIC , and would this patent (if granted) be an obstacle for all others in building PIC's ? (including Lightwave)

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NOTE >> what follows are several posts regarding LWLG vs POETF

#1 >>>

I am very familiar with Lightwave Logic's technology. Rather, I should say, I am up to date on what they have published about their approach. There are amazing similarities to POET and stark differences as well.

The most important difference between them is their advantages with respect to the cost of the transceiver (including the cost to manufacture it and the cost to use it). POET's advantage is the light source can be included on the same chip as the modulator and detector. Lightwave's advantage is it can be applied to CMOS silicon wafers. Many here will already know this debate that rages on in comparing these advantages but fewer probably recognize the similarities.

The most important similarities is the progression stage of these two companies in their Lab to Fab transitions. Both have been at this for over ten years, both have been implying that they have positive results but not saying what the results are, both have hired big names in the industry, both have promised prototype transceivers in the next few months, both are presenting at the PIC conference in March.

While it is tempting to think one of them will steal the show and the other will fizzle out as a result, the truth is probably much less exciting. IMO both technologies will be advanced to proof of concept stage and if they don't dominate this first vertical of optical interconnects for the data center, they will be better positioned to transition to the next vertical. This is really just getting started and there are many opportunities beyond the data center. Making them on commercial scale may be the next logical step but not the final one.

As others have pointed out, there are many other materials in the news lately that have potential as well. Infinera is probably the leader with their InP transceivers, many others are using various forms of lithium niobate, ITO and GaN, as well as graphene, carbon nanotubes and germanium. What distinguishes POET and Lightwave Logic is their apparent move towards the fab with a technology that could potentially save cost in the data center.

Rick

http://agoracom.com/ir/POETTechnologies/forums/discussion/topics/659690-nasa-to-build-first-integrated-photonics-modem/messages/2071609#message

#2 >>>

IMO if Lightwave Logic has some money to spend, Michael Lebby’s friends at BB Photonics may help to develop a low loss, low cost micro multiplexer and de-multiplexer and a DIELECTRIC WAVEGUIDE tech for their “Next Generation Photonic Devices and Non-Linear Optical Polymer Materials Systems”. (Michael Lebby is Independent Board Member at Lightwave Logic Inc.)

BB’s Patent application: COMPOUND SEMICONDUCTOR PHOTONIC INTEGRATED CIRCUIT WITH DIELECTRIC WAVEGUIDE:

A “substrate” as used herein and throughout this disclosure refers to, but is not limited to, a surface upon which semiconductor structures, such as a PIC and embodiments of the invention may be grown. This may include, but not be limited to, InP, GaAs, silicon, silica-on-silicon, silica, silica-on-polymer, glass, a metal, a ceramic, a polymer, or a combination thereof.
http://patents.justia.com/patent/20170023733


Cheers

http://agoracom.com/ir/POETTechnologies/forums/discussion/topics/689337-how-to-write-a-news-release/messages/2148220#message

#3 >>>

I suspect Shelton has the ability to write a piece like the one with link below if given the information by POET.

LightWave Logic is a developmental company that is not yet providing any timeline for commercialization. No revs in a relatively narrow vertical for now.

Primary applications in data/comms, organic polymer waveguide modulators. Their market cap surpassed ours today, with a fraction of the market potential, and likely further away from commercialization.

Their NR is direct, instructive and provides a clear explanation of where they plan to evolve. They engage investors. I thought POET was beginning to do the same with the PIC and the year end results and update, but it is not being maintained as hoped.

Does LightWave have a greater potential for success than POET? By valuation, yes. Do I believe that? No, but as of today the market does.

I suspect there are lots of things happening behind the scenes for POET, but if nothing new comes to the forefront before the AGM, Suresh will have 78.5% loss of shareholder value, 46% realized dilution, zero POET products and NRE, a disastrous PO and a yet to be accretive set of acquisitions as his 2 year legacy.

These are facts in evidence, and could very well change in the next few months, I hope and anticipate that they will to some degree.

Until then, they should have sufficiently protected IP to be able to produce news releases such as this to continue to educate the investment and technical communities on the merits of investing in POET. In this regard, kudos to LightWave and their IR for eating our lunch.

lumenge

http://agoracom.com/ir/POETTechnologies/forums/discussion/topics/689337-how-to-write-a-news-release/messages/2148173#message

Rick,

Could you please comment on these posts grabbed from agoracom board, do you agree with lumenge that POETF is way closer to commercial transceiver (AOC), seems to me Dr Lebby alludes to us using existing lasers, detectors, etc, and so would seem once the modulator is commercial the transceiver will not be far behind, tia

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$LWLG Lightwave Logic Achieves High-Speed Modulation Enabling 25Gbps in an All-Organic Polymer Ridge Waveguide Modulator Prototype

9:58 am ET April 26, 2017 (Market Wire) Print
Mach-Zehnder Design Allows Company to Address 100Gbps Using its Polymer Photonics Integrated Circuit (P2IC(TM)) Technology Platform

LONGMONT, CO--(Marketwired - April 26, 2017) - Lightwave Logic, Inc. (OTCQB: LWLG), a technology company focused on the development of Next Generation Photonic Devices and Non-Linear Optical Polymer Materials Systems for applications in high-speed fiber-optic data communications and telecommunications, announced today it has achieved bandwidth suitable for 25Gbps data rates in an all-organic polymer ridge waveguide intensity modulator prototype. This is a significant improvement over its initial 10Gbps device modulator previously reported on December 26, 2016

A modulator converts electronic/digital information into pulses of light that can traverse fiber optic cables. Modulation is the central information-encoding technology for the datacenter, data communications, and high performance computing industries. To achieve 100 Gbps, modulators are typically operated in groups of 4 (each at 25 Gbps) using a variety of circuit configurations.

A Polymer Photonics Integrated Circuit (P2IC™) is analogous to an electronic integrated circuit, but incorporates two or more optical functions on a single substrate platform. P2ICs™ are expected to experience an increase in component density, similar to Moore's Law described for ICs, where numerous photonic functions are enabled using electro-optic polymer materials. This results in photonic devices that are scalable -- meaning capable of low and decreasing cost while also increasing performance.

Tom Zelibor, CEO of Lightwave Logic commented, "Less than two-quarters from our initial 10Gbps waveguide modulator press release, our engineering team has pushed the performance to where we can now address the explosive 100Gbps market for optical modulators.

"Enabled by our P2IC™ polymer system, our prototype device is suitable for data rates at 25Gbps, and we believe it can be scaled further to operate up to 50Gbps. A 50Gbps device would be the key to open the door for our company to address the next large market, 400Gbps nodes (e.g., using eight modulators). Our near-term next steps will be to optimize relevant 25Gbps device performance parameters.

"We have continued to attract, recruit and hire specialized world class device engineers to capitalize on our existing momentum, which has attained results ahead of schedule. Importantly, this will accelerate our continued progress in 2017 and beyond. In that effort, we have already begun exploring packaging designs to prepare for customer evaluations.

"We expect that the 25Gbps device will generate significant industry attention as we squarely address powerful, cost-effective miniaturized solutions for both today's 100Gbps, and future 400Gbps higher performance markets."

For more information about Lightwave Logic, please visit the Company's website at following URL: www.lightwavelogic.com

Powered by Lightwave Logic





$LWLG https://finance.yahoo.com/news/lightwave-logic-achieves-high-speed-135807639.html

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Steve, great introduction to AIM, found the slide at approx. 11 mins 20 secs into it of great interest, projections of Telecom/Datacom & Sensors markets showing quite the "hockey stick" growth from 2020 to 2025

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Startup Luminar Technologies Inc., founded in 2012, comes out of stealth mode unveiling a high-resolution LiDAR sensor with a 200 meters range, 120-degree range of view, optical zoom and ability to see in rain or fog.

The company's lidar technology uses a laser operating at a standard and eye-safe 1550 nm wavelength (InP) – one more usually associated with long-haul optical communications – but incorporating an InGaAs (indium gallium arsenide) based receiver. (others use 905nm wavelength and silicon-based receiver)

The company has engineered and manufactured all major components of their system from the chip-level up, including lasers, receivers, scanners, and processing electronics. The result, according to Luminar, is the first lidar system to achieve the necessary range and resolution to drive autonomous vehicles safely and at full speed, meeting the needs of every major autonomous vehicle program.

The system has a range of over 200 meters, versus, for instance, 120m for Velodyne’s hulking high-end HDL-64E unit. Quanergy’s S3 sensor is much smaller, similar to Luminar’s, but it can measure just a half million location points per second. Russell says that Luminar’s can measure “millions” per second.

At 200 meters/600 feets, it can detect hard-to-see, low-reflectivity objects such as a black car or tire on the road, and offers a full seven seconds of reaction time at 75 miles per hour. The best currently deployed systems see such objects (assuming 10% reflectivity) at less than 35 meters, which at highway speeds offers less than one second of reaction time.

In a recent demonstration, another version generated even sharper images, but the information was processed with a slight delay -- because of a lack of computing power to crunch all the data rather than a problem with the core technology.


Price point:
A top-of-the-range lidar from Velodyne sells for more than $50,000. It offers cheaper lidar, which generates lower-definition 3-D images, for about $8,000, while Quanergy has a product that sells for some $4,000. Autonomous cars often require two or more lidar sensors, so having a capable system can get expensive.

Luminar is trying to develop a lidar priced significantly less than $1,000, according to people with knowledge of Luminar’s planning.

Financing:
Making sure Luminar has the financial means to compete are 4 Investors: 1517 Fund, ARCHina Capital Partners, Canvas Ventures, GVA capital, investing US $36M of seed money.


Luminar Lidar First Look (video 1:57 - 13 avr. 2017)

found on agoracom poetf board
http://agoracom.com/ir/POETTechnologies/forums/discussion/topics/689004-lidar-dropping-in-on-datacom-wavelength-1550-nm/messages/2147085#message

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AIM Photonics at UCSB

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American Institute for Manufacturing Integrated Photonics (AIM Photonics) DoD Mantech Video

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Michael Liehr, CEO AIM Photonics: What merging Photonics with Nanoelectronics will do

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AIM Photonics Welcomes IBM as Newest Consortium Member


https://www.photonics.com/Article.aspx?AID=61953

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Interesting Finisar seemingly not interested in Ciena latest product offerings, claim would not be profitable for them

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Proto, here's the video interview with Stephan Hardy and Finisar CEO Jerry Rawls

http://www.lightwaveonline.com/articles/2017/04/finisar-s-jerry-rawls-at-ofc-2017.html

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Anders Bylund (Finisar): Optical networking components maker Finisar had a rough March, setting the stock up for a 20% price drop so far in 2017. The company missed analyst expectations in its third-quarter earnings report and set a low bar for fourth-quarter expectations.

But some analysts shrugged off that short-term noise to focus on management's rosy projections for soon-to-start fiscal year 2018. Chinese telecoms are gearing up for massive infrastructure upgrades in the second half of this calendar year, setting Finisar up for big sales of its high-end network transceivers.

"We are currently sold out on this product," said Finisar CEO Jerry Rawls on the third-quarter earnings call. "Despite our continuing to add capacity, we expect that sold-out situation to last at least through the end of calendar year 2017."

Based on that optimistic outlook and the sudden availability of a 20% share price discount, several analysts upgraded the stock and some even raised their target prices. The average of analysts' one-year price targets sits 65% above current share prices, and some see the stock doubling in 12 months.

Optical networking offers plenty of fantastic high-growth investment opportunities right now, with Finisar leading the charge. The company might set up a merger with sector rival Oclaro (NASDAQ:OCLR), since both CEOs have made it clear that they would like to see some consolidation in the industry. That would be another easy share price boost, right on top of the already mouthwatering projections discussed above.

https://www.fool.com/investing/2017/04/14/3-stocks-that-could-double-your-money.aspx?yptr=yahoo

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Any good public companies out there doing something with LiDAR en sensors technology?

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This new software tool based on LiDAR 3D is so going to be as something we now see as an OS. Your LiDAR will drive you around, alerming you what 1km down the road happened. A new Zuckerberg has been born; his name is Austin Russell.

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2017-03-30/the-22-year-old-at-the-center-of-the-self-driving-car-craze

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One of the people said that Apple is developing optical sensors, which involves shining a light through the skin to measure indications of glucose. Accurately detecting glucose levels has been such a challenge that one of the top experts in the space, John L. Smith, described it as "the most difficult technical challenge I have encountered in my career." The space is littered with failures, as Smith points out, but that hasn't stopped companies from continuing to attempt to crack this elusive opportunity.

Apple has a secret team working on the holy grail for treating diabetes

http://www.cnbc.com/2017/04/12/apple-working-on-glucose-sensors-diabetes-treatment.html

hey guys, OPTICAL SENSORS, could this be something Lightwave Logic materials could be used?

[Rickface]

Here are the questions that KC asked Dr. Rosenberg on her AMA:

[–]Perkinamine 1 point 1 day ago
Hi Jessie,
What kind of advanced materials are required for quantum photonic devices? Also, do you see any potential in combining Dr. Offrein’s polymer waveguides with polymer modulators?
Thanks!
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[–]Jessie-RosenbergPhD | Silicon Photonics | IBM TJ Watson Research Center[S] 2 points 14 hours ago
For microwave optical transduction (as mentioned in comments above), we need some nonlinearity that can couple between the microwave and optical domain. Nonlinear optical materials such as lithium niobate or barium titanate would work, there are many other materials in this class as well. You can also use a nonlinear device such as an optomechanical structure, which has a mechanical degree of freedom coupled to the optical mode that provides the nonlinearity - many groups are working along this track also.
Polymers are very interesting as materials for photonics! There is a lot of excellent work being done on polymer modulators. The main challenge there is still efficient poling and material stability, but there is tremendous progress being made.

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Interview is posted now...

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Now is the time for the United States to make photonics a national priority.

The National Photonics Initiative (NPI) is a collaborative alliance among industry, academia and government seeking to raise awareness of photonics - the application of light - and drive US funding and investment in five key photonics-driven fields critical to US competitiveness and national security: advanced manufacturing, communications and information technology, defense and national security, energy, and health and medicine.

http://www.lightourfuture.org/home/

Participate in Congressional Visits Day: April 25-26, 2017

The National Photonics Initiative will be holding Congressional Visits Day on April 25-26, 2017. Sign up today to help inform members of Congress about optics and photonics

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.:AIM Photonics Announces DoD Project

ROCHESTER, N.Y., April 11, 2017 — The American Institute for Manufacturing Integrated Photonics (AIM Photonics), a public-private partnership to advance photonics manufacturing capabilities in the U.S., has announced a new U.S. Department of Defense project to help develop sensors for use in environmental monitoring, detection of chemical and biological weapons, disease diagnosis and food safety.

The $900,000 project, along with an additional $1.41 million in matching funds from AIM Photonics industrial members, will support a consortium of partners led by the University of Rochester that includes the U.S. Army, U.S. Navy Research Lab, Ortho-Clinical Diagnostics, Analog Photonics LLC, the University of Tulsa, PhoeniX Software BV, the University of California-Santa Barbara and OndaVia Inc..

“Sensors represent the interface between the real world and data,” said Ben Miller, principal investigator of the project. “Developing a universal set of protocols to design, manufacture, modify and integrate sensors into photonics systems will not only advance this technology, but also present a tremendous economic opportunity — integrated photonics sensors represent a large and rapidly growing market, potentially reaching more than $15 billion globally by 2020.”

https://www.photonics.com/Article.aspx?AID=61922

hey you guys, $15 billion market by 2020, any chance our materials could be best choice for next-gen sensors?

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2017 Roadmapping Forum Takes Shape

Michael Lebby, a well-known figure in the photonics community, is heavily involved in preparing the ground for an informed conversation.

“I expect the gathering in June in The Netherlands to explore the opportunities that we can't see today which will be commonplace in a decade. This long-term roadmapping discussion is essential for government, research and industry to work out where they want to invest precious finances in new technologies over the next 10-15 years.”

“This forum is very different from product roadmap discussions. The time line is much longer. Datacentre companies have been saying for the last few years that they want to achieve a cost structure of US$1 per Gigabit at 400 Gb/sec for a 2 km long fibre optic link. So, if you have a fibre optic link connecting two switches in a datacentre, then these companies are saying they only really want to pay US$400 to install a transmitter/receiver at either end.”

“If you put that data into a roadmap scenario and bring the experts together, then you start asking the question how can we get the technology to work and what needs to happen to bring the price down to US$1 per Gigabit and keep the customer happy. It may be that you hit a brick wall and achieving that goal is not achievable, but in doing so you will uncover a lot of interesting challenges.”

The organisers are now reaching out to bring a broad-range of senior photonics experts together in a trusted, non-competitive environment and let them interact with (potential) customers of their technologies. Good roadmaps pinpoint the most crucial technologies and define the key metrics which need to be achieved to pave the way for volume solutions.

“A decade from now we’re going to have sensors everywhere. They’ll measure a lot of things not possible today; air-quality, lifestyle, autonomous vehicles. And expect billions of sensors, each of which needs to be connected yet remain secure. How do we bring the costs down so they become ubiquitous? This is something that we need to get to grips with in the road-mapping discussion.”

https://picmagazine.net/article/101208/2017_roadmapping_forum_takes_shape/feature

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.:Photonics Integrated Circuit International Award Winners Announced

Design and Packaging

PhoeniX Software - World Class Software Solutions for Micro- and Nanotechnology Corporations and Institutes

Device Characterization

Oclaro - Lasers, Optical Components, Modules and Subsystems for the Optical, Industrial, and Consumer Laser Markets

Advances in Integration

Effect Photonics - Highly Integrated Optical Communications Products Based on DWDM Optical System-on-Chip Technology

Advances in Manufacturing

SmartPhotonics - Production Services for Indium Phosphide (InP)-Based Photonic Components

PIC Platforms

Kaiam Corporation - Using Silicon Photonics Integration to Address Data Center Demands

Lifetime Achievement Award

Meint Smit - Leading Contributions to the Development of an InP PIC Ecosystem In Europe

https://www.photonics.com/Article.aspx?AID=61811


could any of these be future partners with Lightwave Logic? I'm sure Dr Lebby knows all about each of them!

[SteveSchiets]

Sensors on a robotarm, check the video at TU delft

https://tweakers.net/video/14681/tu-delft-bedekt-robotarm-met-sensorhuid.html

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thanks Steve, I listened again to the ASM, Dr Lebby's part is so awesome, he gives me great confidence we will succeed

Also, if you could post the interview they did with Dr Lebby after the PIC (or was it after the ECOC?) that would be a good one too

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Ok Proto, got it all on there. Let's hope for a good reaction.

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Steve, I think if you could post links to Dr Lebby 2016 presentations at PIC Brussels and ECOC Duesseldorf, or the Dr Lebby interview after the PIC too, those would be good

Also, as Rick pointed out, the Dr Lebby assuming the CEO of LL news release would be good too

[SteveSchiets]

Done! Posted my first! The world will open for us now! They will know now! LOL

https://www.semiwiki.com/forum/f302/lightwave-logic-lwlg-polymer-photonics-9195.html

[SteveSchiets]

Over the last 10 years, Google's infrastructure has scaled by TWO orders of magnitude. 1 billion hours of YouTube video are watched every day - that means 10,000 hours a second. There are 100 billion searches per month on Google servers. Urs Hoelzle

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POETF universe, interesting piece of work by Rainer off agoracom

http://agoracom.com/ir/POETTechnologies/forums/discussion/topics/688527-poet-technologies-universe-update/messages/2145689#message

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Infinera OFC 2016 Technology Briefing

do you guys have any idea on their cost/price structure? (relative to what we have been told about our tech enabling drastically reducing the cost per Gb)

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AIM Photonics - Discuss Integrated Photonics Roadmapping

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AIM Photonics Deputy CEO John Bowers at OFC

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The experience has made me appreciate the choices LWLG has made with LPC.

Rick, I have been quietly thinking the same thing, and also hoping that we don't do anything stupid financing-wise going forward destroying shareholder value as has been the case with POET, perhaps the grand scheme of it all with the Denselight and BB Photonics acquisitions will somehow play out to their great advantage, but I worry that it may in reality cause too great a distraction from the main stage event of creating their next-gen tech, and if they don't get their AOC proto out the door by end of 2017 and cash starts running low, the next round of financing could be even more disastrous to shareholder value than what just occurred in late 2016

Now on the flip-side of the coin, if we could pull off a Lumera type offering, where the pps is run-up from $1.00 to $6.00 where we sell 3 million shares to reap $18 million cash, I would think based on our historical performance, we could get a lot of bang for that buck in terms of future developments!

Also, found this on the agoracom board regarding the POET financing, found it (scarily) interesting >

http://agoracom.com/ir/POETTechnologies/forums/discussion/topics/688552-will-we-ever-see-the-light/messages/2145787#message

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Elenion’s silicon photonics solutions include optical engines

Integrated Modulator / Receiver Assembly (IMRA) for Data Center and Telecom Applications

Available today, is a monolithic Integrated Modulator / Receiver Assembly (IMRA) for high speed communications. This coherent optical engine supports 100/200G communications for data center and telecom markets. The small form factor enables its use in both pluggable transceiver and on-board applications.

Features
•Coherent transceiver
•Dual polarization IQ modulator (QPSK, 8QAM,16QAM)
•Integrated intradyne receiver
•Monolithically integrated optics using Silicon Photonics IC
•Single laser input for both Tx and Rx
•Includes TIAs
•Operation over extended C-band
•Compact form factor suitable for CFP2-ACO
•Pigtailed fiber I/O’s

https://elenion.com/solutions

Rick, it would be interesting to know what the current cost/price structure is for this product

[Rickface]

This is definitely not a complete list. I could have listed many from Europe as well, so lets just say these are my favorite new companies in the US.

Of course, we haven't heard from Corning yet. The details of their Dow-Corning breakup, retaining Hemlock and setting up Versalume are all interesting.

I am convinced that there is definitely something going on at POET, but their shareholder hijacking in the fall just has me wondering what direction they are going. The big management shuffle and the obvious share grab make me believe something is coming, but I have lost some respect for them. I thought Bill Ring's presentation was good but even with the progress, I'm still wondering what's next. I still think the combination with LWLG's materials still has potential. The experience has made me appreciate the choices LWLG has made with LPC.

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Rick, Ayar Labs is in San Francisco along with Dr Lebby

excerpt >

Six full-time employees and three consulting professors, who are co-founders, and two part-time PhD interns staff Ayar Labs, located south of Market Street in downtown San Francisco.

excerpt >

Building upon that research, Ayar is developing its first commercial product, a transceiver that places both the optical diodes and the attendant electrical circuitry on the same silicon die. Optical components such as a photodetector are usually coupled to a separate chip with a photodetector driver circuit. In the Ayar chip, these two can be combined on one single silicon die.

Alex Wright-Gladstein, a third co-founder, and CEO of the company, explains to me that unlike Acacia, which makes 100-gig and 400-gig transceivers, mostly serving a long-haul market, Ayar aims to be in data center switches, serving distances of 2 kilometers or shorter. The company in May received a $2.5 million round of seed funding, from FF Science, part of Founders Fund, and TechU Angels.

http://blogs.barrons.com/techtraderdaily/2016/09/15/ayar/

Rick, do you think Ayar Labs is a possible partner for us?

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Steve, Rick, based on watching Meint OFC presentation and then thinking in terms of our 25 Gbs RWM, do you think that Dr Lebby will be thinking in terms of initially packaging it with some of these already created generic designs and matching also with other partner companies lasers, detectors, etc. , I think the ultimate goal will be to create all of the components of a transceiver, OSA, etc. but what about just out of the gate now

Rick, you may have already been thinking in terms of this with your listing of other companies to research which I have not done yet, also, what about Poet, I think we are all shareholders there too, do you think that we can partner with their new detector, or anything else they have developed currently?

[SteveSchiets]

Meint Smit OFC 2017 presentation

[SteveSchiets]

AIM Photonics Presents Cutting-Edge Integrated Photonics Technology Developments to Packed House at OFC 2017, the Optical Networking and Communication Conference & Exhibition

http://www.sunycnse.com/Newsroom/NewsReleases/Details/17-04-10/AIM_Photonics_Presents_Cutting-Edge_Integrated_Photonics_Technology_Developments_to_Packed_House_at_OFC_2017_the_Optical_Networking_and_Communication_Conference_Exhibition.aspx

[Rickface]

Why not Proto? It was anounced in a formal PR right?

Steve, thanks for setting this up, great idea. I see there's a deleted post already, hopefully you won't have to spend too much time with that.

I would like to start by listing all the dots that could be important for LWLG. Please take a look at Ayar Labs, Elenion, Versalume, Nuvectra. Associated with AIM Photonics, take a look at On Semiconductors, Precision Transceivers and Analog. These companies all have good reason to be watching LWLG.

[SteveSchiets]

Maybe its better to wait and drop the bom with the 25G RWM