Lightwave Logic Inc (LWLG)

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PIC April 10-11 Update - Dr Lebby now in addition to Chairing this premier Photonics Conference and presenting on Lightwave Logic's P2IC Platform, Dr Lebby has also now been joined to discussions of two Panels

PANEL #1
High volume and high performance opportunities for PICs

Will transceivers ever achieve super high volumes to allow scalability in cost and performance, and if so, what would be the common large volume platforms, and more specifically, what would be the transceiver format/form factor. Will these volumes be in the 50m or 100m or 200m level? What percentage of transceivers in a decade will contain PICs, and if so where would you expect to see a PIC being used in a transceiver. Will PICs in transceivers will be three chip, two chip, or one chip (OEIC) solutions? Lastly, will transceivers ever go away or evolve to new designs, especially with COBO and other non-pluggble innovations?

Speakers

William Ring
POET Technologies

Peter Winzer
Nokia Bell Labs

Drew Nelson
IQE

Philip Gadd
Intel

Michael Lebby
CEO at Lightwave Logic Inc

Noori Nourshargh
N2Scientific

PANEL #2
Has silicon photonics got the required scalability to displace InP?

Silicon photonics has attracted the interest of many in large corporations, SMEs, and academics as a potential replacement to the incumbent PIC technology InP. SiP offers natural electronics and photonics integration but can’t source laser light unless custom techniques of packaging, bonding etc are utilized with InP based sources. Also, given that SiP may well be on 200mm and 300mm wafers, it is also not clear if the volume requirements are at a level to attract serious attention in large scale fabs. Given these conditions, the question remains to ask if SiP can be truly scalable towards $1/Gbps at 400Gbps data rates and above (for any distance)?

Speakers

Bert Jan Offrein
IBM

Robert Blum
Intel

Sean Anderson
Cisco

Di Liang
Hewlett Packard Enterprise

Michael Lebby
CEO at Lightwave Logic Inc

Noori Nourshargh
N2Scientific


And finally Dr Lebby's LWLG presentation,

Scalable PIC platforms: The impact of using polymer PICs for 100 and 400Gbps datacom applications

The explosive growth of integrated photonics both in datacenters, telecom as well as non-communications applications, especially from a market standpoint are opening new doors for scalable PIC platforms. Polymer based PICs offer scalability with increased data-rates as well as lower cost structures and provide an excellent vehicle to address the 'purple brick walls’ (cost/performance) that have appeared in photonics roadmaps.

Speaker

Michael Lebby
Lightwave Logic

Presently, Michael is driving new frontiers in the integrated photonics field as: CEO and Board Director, Lightwave Logic Inc. Michael is also part-time full Professor and Chair of optoelectronics at Glyndwr University in Wales, UK where he contributes to the European Commission’s programs and pilot lines in integrated photonics. Michael has been involved in photonics for his whole career which began with research for the UK Government R&D labs in 1977, and continued at AT&T Bell Labs in 1984. At that time, Michael’s activities included researching novel optoelectronic devices in III-V compound semiconductors. Michael then went to Motorola’s Corporate R&D labs in 1989 and drove the VCSEL based technology platform to product and high volume manufacturing. He continued his fiber optics roles at AMP/TE Connectivity, and then helped initiate Intel’s silicon photonics work in 1999. In 2001, he founded his own company Ignis Optics to develop OC-48/192 transceivers and subsequently sold the company to Bookham (now Oclaro). Michael then led OIDA (Optoelectronics Industry Development Association) in Washington DC to campaign on behalf of the photonics industry. At OIDA Michael coined the term ‘green photonics’ and established this as discipline in the industry. Michael also spoke on Capitol Hill representing the optoelectronics industry. Since 2010, Michael has been focusing on bringing PIC (Photonic Integrated Circuit) based technologies to market in various roles that include Solar, LED lighting, and Integrated Photonics for fiber communications. Michael is pursuing high speed polymer based integrated photonics as part of a polymer PIC platform at Lightwave Logic Inc.