Lightwave Logic, Inc. is a development stage company moving toward commercialization of next generation electro-optic photonic devices made on its in-house proprietary organic polymer technology platforms. Electro-optical devices convert data from electric signals into optical signals for multiple applications.
The Company is working to integrate its proprietary materials into the devices that comprise key components in today’s internet infrastructure, in particular, the 100 Gbps and 400 Gbps fiber optics communications market. To that end, several tier-1 and tier-2 potential strategic partners in the data and telecommunications markets have entered into non-disclosure agreements (NDAs) with Lightwave Logic to evaluate its technology for use in their devices. And that process, marked by several technical milestones, continues to move forward to the extent that the company expects to introduce its technology into the commercial marketplace in the near future.
Global communication has reached an extreme point where an ever growing number of choke points keep popping up. In a worst case scenario, the Internet could crash under the growing weight and exponential flow rate of data and video traffic passing through its veins and arteries. Data and video travel through the Internet in the form of digital 1’s and 0’s attached to light pulses generated by laser diodes. Each laser diode has shutter-like mechanism in front of it to switch the light. Simply put, when light passes, it’s a 1 and when light is blocked, it’s a 0. The faster the switching, the faster data flows through the Internet.
LWLG’s ultra-high-speed optical devices are called modulators - they switch light extremely fast, consuming very low power. The company’s differentiation at the device level is in higher speed, lower power consumption, simplicity of manufacturing and reliability. The company is currently focused on testing and demonstrating the simplicity of manufacturability and reliability of its modulators in conjunction with the silicon photonics manufacturing ecosystem. Partnering with silicon-based foundries demonstrates that LWLG’s polymer technology can be transferred into standard production lines using standard equipment.
On a technical note, photostability is a critical performance metric required both in high volume manufacturing processes (such as photolithography) and in offering the high reliability and network availability required for commercial deployments. The ability of Lightwave Logic's proprietary polymers to pass accelerated photostability aging test provides assurance that polymers can be manufactured using standard processes and that polymers have the reliability required to support high network availability and the specified operating life for commercial deployments.
