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Our world runs on micro-electronics, used in operating computers and controlling myriads of other devices and equipment, from smartphones and household appliances to cars and machines. Their performance and energy efficiency can be further enhanced by combining electronics with photonics (light technology), and integrating these technologies into complete packages and modules. This would result is the convergence of the upcoming photonics industry with the established semiconductor industry. Photonic integrated chips can increase the bandwidth of tele- and data- communication enormously, and enable innovative, light-based sensing applications. Integrated photonics will have grown into a multi-billion market by the year 2025, helping to solve some of society’s biggest challenges, ranging from energy-efficient communication and data handling to health monitoring.
Abstract:
The issue of reducing power consumption in datacenters, and optical networks has become a huge topic of discussion at major optical communication conferences, and industry in general. Ultra-high speed, ultra-low power modulators, ultra-small foundry based polymer modulators are seen to be an enabling technology that can help mitigate power consumption in transceivers, line cards, servers, and routers.
Electro-optic polymer modulators are now poised to address power consumption with their inherent ultra-high speed and very low power properties. Electro-optic polymers are now additive with silicon foundries to integrated photonics platforms such as silicon photonics to increase performance significantly. The latest performance of polymer modulators is extremely exciting with 3dB bandwidths over 100GHz with sub-1V voltages and extremely small footprints (<1mm length) which are ideal for optical engines that go into pluggable transceivers and/or co-packaged modules. This talk will also review the latest work in photonics industry roadmaps on both the integrated photonics (PIC) level as well as PIC packaging level.
IPC 2022 Industry Day Program
Monday 14 November 2022
Regency A
2:00 pm – 2:30 pm
Enabling More Efficient Optical Networking using Ultra-high Speed, Ultra-low Power, Ultra-small Foundry based Polymer Modulators
Michael Lebby
Lightwave Logic
Englewood, CO, USA
https://ieee-ipc.org/industry-day/
IPC 2022 Industry Day Program
Monday 14 November 2022
Regency A
2:00 pm – 2:30 pm
Enabling More Efficient Optical Networking using Ultra-high Speed, Ultra-low Power, Ultra-small Foundry based Polymer Modulators
Michael Lebby
Lightwave Logic
Englewood, CO, USA
https://ieee-ipc.org/industry-day/
Are you sure he didn't mention it x?...;)
Today, optical modulators are used everywhere on the internet; however, they are semiconductor based, using materials such as lithium niobate, indium phosphide, and silicon. With all these materials, the optical modulator design has reached a saturation point in performance, which means it’s time to look at a new technology platform.
Stage entry: Polymer optical modulators. Polymer optical modulators are devices that switch light over 3X faster than existing optical semiconductor devices. Furthermore, they relieve the architecture of the internet by taking away the chains of limited optical speeds. This allows the internet to keep competitive by allowing speed to continue growing. Coming back to the road analogy, this is like increasing the speed of the motor car as you drive on a road, and not just a little bit, but significantly.
Worthy of a re post...
The Radical Innovation Of A New Polymer Internet
10/6/22
They can also have a very small footprint or size, which is very important for crowding lots of optical polymer modulators into packages, and lastly, optical polymer modulators have excellent compatibility for photonics integration. The optical polymer modulator together with either silicon or indium phosphide semiconductor PIC platforms as a hybrid PIC platform is poised well to enable scaling for performance for the internet. We call this a “hybrid PIC” and we see the hybrid PIC becoming an engine of growth by increasing data rates via the optical polymer modulator(s), lowering power consumption via the optical polymer modulator, and squeezing lots of photonic devices onto a semiconductor platform through integration.
What This All Means
Scaling the internet through drastic innovation really boils down to the design of optical polymer modulators that have inherently increased the speed of the optics, lowered power consumption, are tiny, and allow for creative integration onto hybrid PICs. This clearly is the radical innovative engine of change for the internet. The future for the internet never has been so exciting!
Abstract:
The issue of reducing power consumption in datacenters, and optical networks has become a huge topic of discussion at major optical communication conferences, and industry in general. Ultra-high speed, ultra-low power modulators, ultra-small foundry based polymer modulators are seen to be an enabling technology that can help mitigate power consumption in transceivers, line cards, servers, and routers.
Electro-optic polymer modulators are now poised to address power consumption with their inherent ultra-high speed and very low power properties. Electro-optic polymers are now additive with silicon foundries to integrated photonics platforms such as silicon photonics to increase performance significantly. The latest performance of polymer modulators is extremely exciting with 3dB bandwidths over 100GHz with sub-1V voltages and extremely small footprints (<1mm length) which are ideal for optical engines that go into pluggable transceivers and/or co-packaged modules. This talk will also review the latest work in photonics industry roadmaps on both the integrated photonics (PIC) level as well as PIC packaging level.
IPC 2022 Industry Day Program
Monday 14 November 2022
Regency A
2:00 pm – 2:30 pm
Enabling More Efficient Optical Networking using Ultra-high Speed, Ultra-low Power, Ultra-small Foundry based Polymer Modulators
Michael Lebby
Lightwave Logic
Englewood, CO, USA
https://ieee-ipc.org/industry-day/
ML highlights 1 company of interest on his Linkedin page, Medphab...
MedPhab serves as Europe's first pilot line dedicated to manufacturing, testing, validating and upscaling new photonics technologies for medical diagnostics enabling accelerated product launch with reduced R&D costs.
The purpose of MedPhab pilot production line is to accelerate the commercialisation of diagnostic devices and instruments for treatment based on photonics, and to reduce the R&D cost. Based on testing the validation of the pilot production line on three application areas: hospital environment, home care devices and equipment for chemical diagnostics. Such project needs the cooperation of a consortium of excellent research institutes and companies that have experience in ISO 13485 standardized manufacturing and/or strong expertise in photonics.
https://medphab.eu
x, what do you think about Leuven, Belgium (near imec) for a potential EU lab location? (just some fun speculation...)
(see video)
“We’re nearly hitting the wall of physical boundaries.”
https://www.imec-int.com/en/articles/were-nearly-hitting-wall-physical-boundaries
I wasn't aware of the multiple U.S. imec locations:
imec Berkeley office
2120 University Ave
Berkeley, CA 94704, USA
imec Florida
194 NeoCity Way
Kissimmee, FL 34744
USA
imec San Francisco
220, Montgomery Street, Suite 1027
San Francisco - CA 94104, USA
imec - San Jose office
3031 Tisch Way, Suite 125
San Jose, CA 95128
USA
Some incredible work coming out of Stanford U.
11/10/22
As a result, the new chip can perform as well as digital computers on complex AI tasks like image and speech recognition, and the authors claim it is up to 1,000 times more energy efficient, opening up the possibility for tiny chips to run increasingly complicated algorithms within small devices previously unsuitable for AI like smart watches and phones.
A little side note on Hightower, the top two advisors featured on their home page are Michael Farr and Stephanie Link, both frequent CNBC guests and contributors, both very conservative in their on air recommendations.
https://hightoweradvisors.com/index.html
Try wrapping your mind around this number...
The DRIVE Orin system-on-a-chip delivers 254 trillion operations per second — ample compute headroom for a software-defined architecture. It’s designed to handle the large number of applications and deep neural networks needed to achieve systematic safety standards such as ISO 26262 ASIL-D.
https://blogs.nvidia.com/blog/2022/11/09/volvo-ex90-suv-ai-nvidia-drive/?=&linkId=100000161841634
A little over a year ago, ML was the Keynote Speaker for the launch event for PITC (Photonic Integration Technology Center) based in Eindhoven. I don't believe LWLG ever pr'd the event. A validation of just how highly regarded ML is in his field...who do they ask to be the keynote at the launch of yet another important resource for the photonics industry? Answer...ML
https://www.photonics21.org/events-workshops/pitc-virtual-launch-event
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Integrated photonics will grow to a multi-billion market by the year 2025. The Photonic Integration Technology Center (PITC), a joint innovation center for integrated photonics, accelerates the uptake of integrated photonics by bridging the divide between research and application.
No, thank you jeunke22 for all that you do! Well said btw, you almost got it word for word... The acceptance of a post-deadline at ECOC 2022 provides third party validation of this significant result."
I find myself suddenly envisioning ML establishing a European facility/office/lab...? (choose your word) in the not too distant future...;)
"For our polymer technology to become 'Ubiquitous', we at Lightwave Logic need to show the community that our technology is both superior in performance and is the correct technology platform not just for next-generation optical systems today, but for at least the next decade," said Dr. Michael Lebby, Chief Executive Officer of Lightwave Logic. "Through our collaboration with KIT and SilOriX, we have achieved a new world-record for a silicon slot modulator using our advanced polymer material. This shows that our material can perform in a variety of device structures and designs and is positioned to significantly reduce power consumption of optical networking and to become a true 'green photonics' enabler for the industry. The acceptance of a post-deadline at ECOC 2022 provides third party validation of this significant result."
Dr. Adrian Mertens, CEO of SilOriX, added: "Our goal at SilOriX is to become the premier device design company for of silicon-organic hybrid (SOH) photonic integrated circuits (PIC) for optical networking. Our technology facilitates ultra-low power operation at highest data rates, combined with extremely small footprint. This makes the device amenable to any transceiver format - be it pluggable or co-packaged optics for on-board applications. We are pleased to work with Lightwave Logic, providing us with high-performance and reliable Perkinamine™ chromophores to showcase the efficient connection of organics and silicon photonics leading to this new world record, further highlighting the disruptive potential of our SOH technology."
Nice!
10-Q could be as early as after the bell today...? was released on 11/9 in 2020...
Thanks Shazam, keep em coming!
Luvin that post jeunke22!
Anytime now...11/15/21 last year
Going back through the 9/22/22 pr...
Lightwave Logic and Polariton Technologies Announce World-Record Performance for 250 GHz Optical Link
The link contained a plasmonic modulator using electro-optic polymer material as well as a novel metamaterial enhanced graphene photodetector featuring a 200 nm spectral window and a setup-limited1 bandwidth of 500 GHz. The EOE link achieved a world record and unprecedented 250 GHz 3dB bandwidth2.
Dr. Michael Lebby, Chief Executive Officer of Lightwave Logic, said: "Next generation ultra-high-capacity interconnects require compact, ultra-fast modulators on the transmission end and ultra-fast photodetectors on the receiving end – this incredible result demonstrates that our electro-optic polymers will be instrumental not only for next-generation high-capacity interconnects, but for the more advanced and faster links that will be required for succeeding generations. This is an optical link that utilizes devices with extremely high bandwidths, and the plasmonic demonstration shows that hybrid technologies such as electro-optic polymers and graphene together form an important technology platform for volume scalability using large silicon foundries for mass commercialization. Through our collaboration with Polariton, we have utilized our polymers for a world-record performance for a plasmonic optical link.
"The plasmonic-to-plasmonic optical link opens flexible integration possibilities that we have only imagined before. This shows that plasmonic devices now complete an ultra-high frequency toolbox for a variety of applications in fiber communications – something we need to add to our technology roadmaps going forward," concluded Lebby.
November 9, 20222:07 AM EST Last Updated 3 hours ago
Chip maker TSMC plans multibillion-dollar Arizona factory expansion - WSJ
https://www.reuters.com/technology/chip-maker-tsmc-plans-multibillion-dollar-arizona-factory-expansion-wsj-2022-11-09/
The EU has their fingers on the pulse...Medphab & CSEM
Polymer coatings on rigid/flex substrate
https://community.medphab.eu/community-marketplace/product/?action=view&id_form=7&id_form_data=165
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Photonic-integrated circuits (PICs)
Combining small footprint, scalability, and reduced costs for industrial applications, such as sensing, lidar, telecommunication, metrology, and quantum technologies
Focusing on the lithium niobate on insulators (LNOI) platform for PICs that include high-speed modulators, phase shifters, and nonlinear photonics capabilities
Offering design, foundry, test, and integration services https://www.csem.ch/en/technical-focus/photonics
Xena, I don't have the credentials to answer that, wish I did.
Here's another IBM link FWIW.
Table 1. Stringent requirements for MM PWGs used as optical interconnects. This illustrates why silicones are excellent base materials to realize optical PCBs. Within a close collaboration with our polymer materials provider Dow Corning Corporation, we were able to identify suitable silicone-based optical polymers and tailor them to fulfill all requirements.
POLYMER MATERIALS TWG
System aspects of active polymer PICs
As the trend towards increased data rates in fiber communications continues, there is also a need to reduce power consumption as well as decrease the physical size of the transceiver unit or box. This leaves a design criterion that is challenging both from a size, weight, power issue as well as a high speed, and more importantly cost considerations.
Polymers have the advantage of naturally high data rate capacity as seen by a number of publications of results that exceed 100 Gbps. Polymers also have the advantage of meeting the lower power consumption targets through driving high speed Mach-Zehnder modulators with voltage levels significantly below 5V, and in fact with Ridge Waveguide devices in the 1-3V range, and with slot devices in the 0.5-2V range.
It is well known that polymer materials typically use a spin-on process, and from a weight standpoint, achieve low weight criteria in data communications. The size of devices can vary, however, by integrating polymer modulators with other photonic devices, the size can be minimized effectively.
Last but not least in the key criteria metrics, polymers have scalability, both in high speed performance, and in lower cost structures needed for competitive pricing of transceivers. While many technologies are struggling today to surpass the 5-10$/Gbps mark (i.e. achieve lower $/Gbps numbers than 5$/Gbps), customers of for example datacenters have made it very clear in public forums over the past 2 years that what is required are transceivers that meet $1/Gbps. This metric is not meaningful unless a data rate is attached, and the metric of $1/Gbps at a 400Gbps data rate translates into a data link for a data center where the total transceiver cost must meet $400 ($200 each end of the link) and the data rate for the link must achieve at least 400Gbps. This is certainly a tough challenge, being 5-10X improvement over state of the art today. Clearly, innovation is needed to achieve these types of metrics, and polymers, when integrated into a PIC (photonic integrated circuit) platform have the scalability both to meet and exceed this challenge by the data center companies.
Polymer photonics will grow from up to 10 polymer devices per PIC presently, to over 500 devices per PIC over the next 20 years. The types of PICs that will implement polymers include transmitter that include both modulators, lasers, waveguides, WDMs, spot size converters, and detectors. The functions of these polymer PIC chips may include transmitter drivers, and arrayed transmitter drivers, both incoherent and coherent. Key applications for polymer based PICs include data communications and telecommunications. Within data communications, both datacenters, and high performance computing segments.
“Our mission is to advance current photonic device technology by adding materials with strong electro-optic effects to silicon photonic structures.”
—IBM scientist Stefan Abel
That does help noblynx, thanks for the comment. Like a I said, waaay over my head..;)
This paper is waaay over my head and not sure if even pertinent to LWLG, but when I see the words..."making them interesting for a large variety of applications including energy storage, chemical sensing, and gas separation" used in the context of "modulators and polymeric sheet" it caught my attention...
Covalent Organic Frameworks (COFs) are porous materials with high surface areas, making them interesting for a large variety of applications including energy storage, chemical sensing, and gas separation.....
Thorough characterization of the modulated COFs showed that the modulators are located on the outside of the polymeric sheet and get replaced by benzidine molecules, favoring a regular network formation over a homogeneous modulator distribution.
A good read jeunke22, talk about being in the right place at the right time.... Fundamentally, data centers can be built (and are being built) quicker than power capacity. This leads to the (literal) power struggles in Amsterdam, London, Ireland, and elsewhere.
Lightwave Logic Inc. Faster by Design
Yes, think Yum China that was spun off Yum Brands, think Zoetis that was spun off of Pfizer...etc. etc. You get two companies for the price of one, the spun off shares are all found money with little effect to the bottom line of the original company. As you say X "a win, win"...great idea!
This is interesting...Photonic Medical Devices...hmm?
Who we are
imec
Phillips
Stryker
EPIC
.....etc, etc..
Why we started
Photonics is based on combining optics and electronics, and it enables various medical applications from diagnostic devices to instruments for treatment. However, both photonics in itself and its areas of application are fragmented, which poses challenges to equipment manufacturers. Furthermore, the strict regulations within the sector slow down the introduction of new solutions. The orders for the pilot production line are made in a centralised manner and channelled to the manufacturer with the best implementation capability. The European Commission decided to expand the existing photonics pilot-line offering by funding the establishment of MedPhab pilot-line under Horizon 2020 from January 1st, 2020 , the Framework Programme for Research and Innovation.
OUR MISSION
The purpose of MedPhab pilot production line is to accelerate the commercialisation of diagnostic devices and instruments for treatment based on photonics, and to reduce the R&D cost. Based on testing the validation of the pilot production line on three application areas: hospital environment, home care devices and equipment for chemical diagnostics. Such project needs the cooperation of a consortium of excellent research institutes and companies that have experience in ISO 13485 standardized manufacturing and/or strong expertise in photonics.
https://medphab.eu
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Polymer coatings on rigid/flex substrate
https://community.medphab.eu/community-marketplace/product/?action=view&id_form=7&id_form_data=165
I didn't listen to the post interview, I heard what I wanted to hear from ML...;)
15 seconds of the interview puts a big fat red bow on it for me....31:50 to 32:05 min.
"our technology is polymers, 3x faster, it runs in less than a volt, and so what does that do for you? Well, it means that the semiconductors really can't compete anymore, so now we're going to a polymer technology"
Lightwave Logic Inc. Faster by Design
Monday Nov. 7, 2022...
Michael Lebby
LIGHTWAVE LOGIC INC
Parallel Session 2d: Heterogeneous Integration: Electronics And Photonics United
15:10 - 16:10 PM Auditorium
Join the panel discussion on heterogeneous integration with various speakers including Luc Augustin of Smart Photonics, Alan Evans of MIT, Ruud Oldenbeuving of IMEC, Arne Leinse of LioniX International, David de Felipe Mesquida of Fraunhofer Heinrich Hertz Institute, Matteo Cherchi of VTT, Michael Lebby of Lightwave Logic and Michael Geiselman of Ligentec.
https://www.picsummiteurope.com
Thanks Steve, I am absolutely certain Dr. So is an irreplaceable asset and contributor to LWLG's progress.
I believe there's an old saying that goes:
"A great leader is one who surrounds himself with great people who then, collectively, innovate and implement with success. If he tries to do it all by himself, he is an egotist and likely to fail."
Take for example LWLG's Advisory Board member Dr. Franky So...
Dr. Franky So is currently the Walter and Ida Freeman Distinguished Professor of Materials Science and Engineering at the North Carolina State University. Previously, he was the Rolf E Hummel Professor of Electronic Materials and Associate Chair for Research in the Department of Materials Science and Engineering at the University of Florida. Prior to joining academia, he conducted industry-leading research on OLEDS (organic light-emitting diodes) at Motorola and OSRAM Opto-Semiconductors for 14 years. Dr. So is a Fellow of the National Academy of Inventors, IEEE, OSA and SPIE. He is also Editor-in-Chief of Materials Science and Engineering Reports and Associate Editor of four other research journals and chairs the OLED Symposium of the SPIE Optics and Photonics conference. Dr. So holds 80 issued patents and has 14 pending. He has over 150 publications and has a Google H-index of over 70. Dr. So received the PhD in EE from the University of Southern California, the MS in Material Science from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, and the BA in Physics from Hamilton College.
https://www.lightwavelogic.com/about-us/leadership/
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On top of all his other outstanding credentials, he heads a company called...
NextGen Nano
NextGen Nano is a high-tech company with a focus on the empowerment of the individual. By decentralising power generation from governments and traditional grids, we are striving to have a deliberate positive environmental impact, whilst reducing reliance on pollutants and finite materials.
About Us
NextGen Nano has developed benchmark IP that may hold the key to advancements in the decentralising of energy, in line with recent Government CO2 emission and climate policy goals.
Our breakthrough technology replaces existing solutions (fabricated with pollutant, finite materials) with earth-friendly biopolymers. This breakthrough enables NextGen Nano to develop solar cells that produce energy with unrivalled efficiency at a far lower cost than existing hardware.
This technology allows robust, transparent cells to be applied to flexible surfaces, thus making it more usable and cost-effective than ever before, as well as practical for multiple potential real-world applications.
https://nextgen-nano.com
An interesting interview with Kyle Bass of Hayman Capital Management on China invading Taiwan...
President Xi..."prepare to undergo high winds and waves and even for stormy seas of a major test"...
"The words President Xi used in the speeches, lead me to believe that he is absolutely gonna move on #Taiwan in the next year or two."
— Julia Chatterley (@jchatterleyCNN) November 1, 2022
Great chat with @Jkylebass on the potential consequences of #China’s political shift. pic.twitter.com/xV1QYhrFaS
A great highly relevant post Sage72, zooming out look at the desperate situation Europe is currently in now as they head into winter...even under normal circumstances LWLG's technology would greatly contribute to the bottom line of DC operators etc. but at this point it is essentially a necessity for profitability and continued operation. IMO