$LWLG Dr Lebby told investors that the 50Gbs proto
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These 3 Slides that tell Investors LWLG has true Next-Gen product ready to go!
Slide 45
Industry perception and reality…
• Industry perception
– We (the Industry) are stuck at ~35-50 Gbaud bandwidth. Everything else has to come from increasing complexity of modulation schemes and electronics
• Reality:
– We (LWLG) can use polymer modulators for 100 Gbaud or more!
– E.g. 100Gbps single lane NRZ, 400Gbps with 4 lanes NRZ, 800 Gbps with 4 lanes PAM4
• Industry perception
– Voltages will be high like other MZ modulators
• Reality:
– ~1V means we can eliminate drivers, use direct drive from CMOS
• Industry perception
– Polymer modulators are huge, stand-alone devices
• Reality:
– 5mm Mach-Zehnder fits into standardized transceiver footprints
– Hybrid integration possible with InP, Si photonics, etc. ?
Polymer modulators are the ticket to the next speed node…
Slide 22
Advantages for Polymer Modulators
• Advantages (LWLG material)
– Very high bandwidth (>100 Gbaud) potential
• Capability of 100Gbps NRZ, 200Gbps PAM4, 800 Gbps 16QAM, etc.
• Small size
– Very low voltage (~1V)
• Smaller, lower power drivers or complete elimination of drivers
• High electro-optic efficiency
• Low power
– Robust material
• Low insertion loss
• High stability
• High operating temperature
• Compatible with photonic integration
#Slide 17 (Complexities/Additional Costs All Legacy Technologies are forced to use for 400Gbs node)
• Advanced modulation requires a lot of additional electronics for digital signal processing (DSP)
• Dramatic increase in transceiver electronic content for PAM4
• Coherent requires even more DSP
• Pushback on number of lanes
• 4 is preferred over 8 for single-mode, 16 considered
only for multi-mode
#CongratsTeamLWLG
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