Scalable PIC platforms: The impact of using polyme
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Michael Lebby, Lightwave Logic
Refining the PIC: achieving the next milestone in performance
Presentation
Scalable PIC platforms: The impact of using polymer PICs for 100 and 400Gbps datacom applications
The explosive growth of integrated photonics both in datacenters, telecom as well as non-communications applications, especially from a market standpoint are opening new doors for scalable PIC platforms. Polymer based PICs offer scalability with increased data-rates as well as lower cost structures and provide an excellent vehicle to address the 'purple brick walls’ (cost/performance) that have appeared in photonics roadmaps.
Speaker
Michael Lebby
Lightwave Logic
Presently, Michael is driving new frontiers in the integrated photonics field as: CEO and Board Director, Lightwave Logic Inc. Michael is also part-time full Professor and Chair of optoelectronics at Glyndwr University in Wales, UK where he contributes to the European Commission’s programs and pilot lines in integrated photonics. Michael has been involved in photonics for his whole career which began with research for the UK Government R&D labs in 1977, and continued at AT&T Bell Labs in 1984. At that time, Michael’s activities included researching novel optoelectronic devices in III-V compound semiconductors. Michael then went to Motorola’s Corporate R&D labs in 1989 and drove the VCSEL based technology platform to product and high volume manufacturing. He continued his fiber optics roles at AMP/TE Connectivity, and then helped initiate Intel’s silicon photonics work in 1999. In 2001, he founded his own company Ignis Optics to develop OC-48/192 transceivers and subsequently sold the company to Bookham (now Oclaro). Michael then led OIDA (Optoelectronics Industry Development Association) in Washington DC to campaign on behalf of the photonics industry. At OIDA Michael coined the term ‘green photonics’ and established this as discipline in the industry. Michael also spoke on Capitol Hill representing the optoelectronics industry. Since 2010, Michael has been focusing on bringing PIC (Photonic Integrated Circuit) based technologies to market in various roles that include Solar, LED lighting, and Integrated Photonics for fiber communications. Michael is pursuing high speed polymer based integrated photonics as part of a polymer PIC platform at Lightwave Logic Inc.
Opening, Closing Remarks and the presentation, 5 times Lightwave will be up on the board, Increased name recognition in the industry. Something we could only dream about 13 or 14 years ago.
I'd like to see what Dalton at U of W has to say now?
Lebby is all about Scalability and Lightwave has the answer.
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