Lightwave Logic, Inc. 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.