Lightwave Logic Inc (LWLG)

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LWLG eliminates the need for DSP and the costly and power hungry Driver Chip too!!

FINAL REPORT: #OFC 2023 has made photonics history! And here is the reason why: For the first time, we have questioned the need for Digital Signal Processors (DSP). In times of energy crises and climate change, our data centers are pressured to make significant energy savings. Meanwhile, their customers demand more and more bandwidth, especially as some of us (not me) want to live in the #Metaverse, making AI the biggest driver of power consumption in our data centers.

So OFC Conference 2023 raised the biggest dilemma of the last decade. How do we save power NOW?? To reduce power we need to tackle 3 things separately:

NUMBER 1: DSPs! OFC 2023 will always be remembered as the venue where we raised the question: what is the future of DSPs in data transceivers?
At Monday's Optica Executive Forum, Andreas Bechtholsheim, co-founder of Arista Networks, raised every eyebrow in the room. He stated that the future is Linear Drive Optics, which compared to current DSP Optics, offers power savings of 25% for 51.2T switch, or even 30% for 102.4T switch. I wonder how DSP suppliers like MaxLinear, Credo, Broadcom Inc. or Marvell Technology will react?

NUMBER 2: Silicon Photonics Modulators. Our OFC Rump Session this year about the future of Silicon Photonics showed that we needed to be more inclusive. New materials are coming to silicon photonics offering major advantages in both speed and power consumption. And you know the list, but I love mentioning them: Lithium Niobite from HyperLight, Liobate or Ori-Chip Optoelectronics Technology Co. ltd., Polymer from Lightwave Logic, Inc., NLM Photonics or SilOriX, Plasmonics from Polariton Technologies Ltd. or BTO from Lumiphase. People keep asking me who is going to win. I don’t have a crystal ball; who knows, maybe they all win! Over the last decade, people have been asking if Silicon Photonics or InP would win, and the answer is they both won! Ask Dave Welch from Infinera if InP is not successful! Or ask Michael Hochberg if he ever regretted for a second dedicating his life to Silicon Photonics after selling Elenion Technologies to Nokia! So maybe they all win again!

NUMBER 3 The light source. So how do we reduce the power consumption of the light sources? That’s easy: use less of them or make them more efficient. This OFC saw the rise of Avicena Tech. They made a bold move by bringing LEDs to datacom: affordable and efficient. Well, ask Chris Pfistner; he will gladly show you! On the other hand, new approaches using comb lasers by companies like Alfalume, Inc, Quintessent Inc. or Enlightra are breaking new frontiers in Wavelength Division Multiplexing.

If people ask me about what happened at other conferences recently, I tell them that it is great that we got back together after the pandemic. But technology-progress-wise, it is hard to explain. But at OFC, things really happened, and you NEED to be here, if you want to influence the change that’s coming very soon. Time to go home! Safe journeys. Onward!

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