• It took ~7 years for PAM4 mass adoption. It will need to be used until 3.2T • SDM and WDM have ”run way” >3.2T but industry is going to have to learn – and scale - miniature fiber handling and “attach” techniques…fast and cost effectively • The likelihood that coherent will be adopted by datacenters or datacom is miniscule until ~6.4T (see item 1 above)
LWLG Electro-Optic Polymers: Ready for Commercialization
World-class chemical synthesis lab State-of-the-art equipment for process-scale synthesis of chromophores
Industry-standard purification techniques State-of-the-art equipment for production of highly pure materials
Material comparison: TFLN vs LWLG Polymer
LWLG is TONS the best!!
Material comparison: LWLG Polymers vs Competition/Legacy Polymers
LWLG is TONS the best!!
LWLG EO polymers are world-class in every parameter and designed for reliability.
Temporal Stability = Orientational Stability of Poled State • Lifetime = 10% loss of poled state • Increasing Tg of material increases lifetime (protects from loss of activity due to depoling) • LWLG materials designed for high Tg
▪ The Vp on 20 modulators is stable over 6000hrs. ▪ The average shift over ~ 6000hours is 1.2% and it is within the margin of error of the test setup.
Long and shortterm photostability does not seem to be an issue (4300 hours) with LWLG EO chromophores when protected from O2
”DFM” & Ability To Scale Will Be Important For Any New Modulator Technology
Large incumbent fabs Need to Adapt if TFLN is Going To Scale
Polymers are ideal for silicon foundries…
Polymer positioning for heterogeneous integration is aligns with silicon foundries very well
Leveraging silicon eco-system • Polymers can easily fit into silicon foundries compared to legacy and new exotic materials • Polymers extend silicon photonics performance • Polymers meet the performance for datacenter applications
• Partnering with AMF to produce polymer slot modulators on 200mm silicon wafers
• Heterogeneous integration of polymer on Silicon Photonics Platform • Low drive voltage and small form factor for low power consumption and high density • Very high bandwidth (70- 100GHz) • Fabricated onto 200mm silicon wafers
Implementing a New Technology Platform
Have device/PIC teams use EO polymers in their device/PIC designs
Supply polymer modulator OSAs for transceivers
Have foundries use EO polymers in PIC PDKs
Patent licensing and product sales to drive revenue
Summary
• Our heterogeneous polymer/silicon platform is poised to become ubiquitous (just like OLED polymer material) • We are open to license our material, do technology transfer, and to leverage your position in the market -place… • EO polymers continue to show technical progress with polymer reliability and stability…200G lanes and performance head -room to go 400G lanes and more