See "Results" WTMF June 2018 video and at 6 min ma

See "Results" WTMF June 2018 video and at 6 min mark Dr Lebby talks to a slide showing PIC'a and Devices Companies >>

Company Name:

Intel
IBM
Avago
Broadcom
Finisar
Lumentum
Oclaro
Neo
Acacia
Luxtera

New Smaller PIC Players:

Lightwave Logic (LWLG)
POET
Effect
Artic

http://pub.h2magazine.nl/wtmf18#!/results-wtmf18

There may be 1000's of companies looking for solutions, but very very very few are smack dab on the Photonics Industry Roadmap!

Check out Slide 16 to see what the Roadmap deemed level of Importance for future developments, they took 100 points and allocated that total amongst areas of concern for development, the top two point getters were

1) Test equipment for 100Gbs (got 21 pts)
2) Must operate at 100 Gbs NRZ ( got 16 pts)

no other entry got double digit points assigned to it

http://www.h2magazine.nl/iPDF/wtmf17/180622_W...s_iPDF.pdf

and then look at this slide from Dr Lebby's ECOC presentation >

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…

See ECOC Presentation Sept 2018 >

Download from Lightwave Logic's Website, here is the link

http://lightwavelogic.com/Presentations

Looks to me like a match made in Photonics Heaven!