Company Discussed Extending
Silicon Photonics Performance using its Proprietary Perkinamine®
Electro-Optic Materials Based on 200mm Commercial Wafers at the
2024 Optical Fiber Conference in San
Diego
ENGLEWOOD, Colo., March 25,
2024 /PRNewswire/ -- Lightwave Logic,
Inc. (NASDAQ: LWLG), a technology
platform company leveraging its proprietary electro-optic (EO)
polymers to transmit data at higher speeds with less power in a
small form factor, today announced that Chairman and Chief
Executive Officer Dr. Michael Lebby
discussed the latest world-class results for the company's 200Gbps
heterogeneous polymer/silicon photonic modulator at a record low
drive voltage at the 2024 Optical Fiber Conference (OFC) in
San Diego, California. OFC is a
leading international conference bringing together the complete
value chain of fiber communications, datacentric, and
telecommunications industrial players.
The results were shown in Dr. Lebby's
presentation on March 24, 2024 during
an industry workshop entitled "Will
Heterogeneous Integration Meet the Needs of Future Applications?",
featuring co-panelists and speakers from six other companies.
The panel focused on opportunities for heterogeneous integration of
various materials including polymers and silicon – providing a
roadmap for very high-performance optical polymer modulators that
can operate with very low power consumption (via low voltage) and
are very small in size – making them suitable for pluggable optical
transceivers as well as on-board optics.
In the presentation, Dr. Lebby discussed
the company's latest world-class results based on a novel packaged
heterogeneous polymer EO modulator design leveraging silicon
photonics devices from a 200mm production foundry process and
Lightwave Logic's proprietary high temperature, high performance EO
Polymer material. Each modulator was operated at
100GBaud PAM4 and achieved all drive voltages below 2V, and as low
as 1V which is excellent for low power operation. Dr. Lebby
discussed the test set-up for the high-speed results, and how
electro-optic polymer-based modulators based on 200mm silicon
foundry wafers are ideal for 4 channel 200Gbps per lane 800Gbps
pluggable optical transceivers for datacenter applications.
Dr. Lebby also shared updated lifetime and reliability data for
both the electro-optic polymer materials and electro-optic polymer
devices.
By leveraging the mature semiconductor
ecosystem, silicon photonics has historically afforded unparalleled
cost reduction and a deep level of integration, though due to
fundamental physics limitations, silicon photonics are reaching the
performance limit to reach the bandwidth and power requirements
necessary in the modern era. Today's announcement demonstrates that
a hybrid approach, leveraging the cost and integration benefits of
silicon photonics along with the unparalleled bandwidth and low
power advantages of Lightwave Logic's proprietary EO polymers, lays
a clear path for competitive performance and integration for
today's and future optical pluggable transceivers.
Dr. Michael
Lebby commented: "Our newly presented results are incredibly
exciting, representing not only the best
commercial-grade-compatible polymer modulators to-date, but on
commercial 200mm silicon wafers, with performances that fit very
well for a 4-channel x 200Gbps (or 800Gbps) pluggable transceiver,
as well as the next generation 4-channel x 400Gbps (or 1600Gbps)
pluggable transceivers. 200G lanes with clean, open eye
diagrams now represent an inflection-point to extend silicon
photonics benefits by utilizing the company's polymers to enable
much higher data-rate speeds at significantly lower power
consumption levels. These results will position LWLG to support the
burgeoning demand of generative AI as datacenters around the world
begin to upgrade their hardware faster than expected to meet the
demands of the future."
About Lightwave Logic,
Inc.
Lightwave Logic, Inc. (NASDAQ: LWLG) develops a platform
leveraging its proprietary engineered electro-optic (EO) polymers
to transmit data at higher speeds with less power in a small form
factor. The company's high-activity and high-stability organic
polymers allow Lightwave Logic to create next-generation photonic
EO devices, which convert data from electrical signals into optical
signals, for applications in data communications and
telecommunications markets. For more information, please visit the
company's website at lightwavelogic.com.
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