Lightwave Logic Inc (LWLG)

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ECOC Market Focus October 2 - 4
11:00 – 11:15 Commercializing reliable hybrid electro-optic polymer modulators
Michael Lebby, CEO Lightwave Logic Inc
Electro-optic polymer modulators, and especially slot modulators are a hot topic in the industry today as the industry strives to increase modulation speed while reducing optical network equipment power consumption. Results will be shown that enable not only 800G transceivers, but 1600G, and 3200G also. EO polymers offer 4 key advantages: 1)Exceptionally high EO bandwidth in excess of 110GHz, and with plasmonic devices over 250GHz 2)Low voltage drive of under 1V (which allows direct drive from ICs, DSPs etc., and eliminates driver chips) 3)Very small footprint and size, which allows simple integration with PICs and silicon photonics and are ideal for pluggable and Onboard-optic transceiver form-factors 4)EO polymers can be easily handled in standard silicon fabs using standard PDKs The talk will discuss the latest results with commercial grade electro-optic polymer materials that are being licensed for device applications for datacom at 1310 and 1550nm. As well as silicon foundry fabricated silicon slot modulator polymer PIC device designs for use with integrated photonics platforms. Material and device demonstration will show polymers exceeding electro-optical and electrical 3dB bandwidths of 110GHz, low voltage, and very small form factors. Polymer electro-optical materials have competitive performance characteristics both at 1310nm as well as 1550nm operating wavelengths. Reliability and stability results will be presented to show the robustness of the technology platform with respect to thermal and photostability that will exceed over 9k hrs. Plans and details for CSP – chip scale packaging for polymer PICs will be shown from the performance of dielectric sealants such as Atomic Layer Deposition at temperatures suitable for organic, polymer material. The talk will also show how the performance of EO polymer modulators can extend to not only 400 and 800Gbps transceivers, but also 1600, 3200 and beyond using the natural bandwidth characteristics of Perkinamine® chromophore organic material. With EO bandwidths that exceed 250GHz, single line data rates that exceed 200Gbps are possible which opens a path for multi-Tbps data rate transceiver designs. Further, it will be shown that the EO polymer technology has the potential to extend the technology roadmap significantly over this decade.

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