Lightwave Logic, Inc. · NASDAQ:LWLG
Lightwave Logic — OFC Workshop 2024: Will Heterogeneous Integration Meet the Needs of Future Applications?
36 slides from Lightwave Logic's conference presentation, March 2024
Slide 1: Faster by Design: Electro-optic polymers for heterogeneous integration
OFC Workshop 2024: Will Heterogeneous Integration Meet the Needs of Future Applications? Faster by Design Electro-optic polymers for heterogeneous integration NASDAQ Michael Lebby, CEO LWLG © Lightwave Logic, Inc. Confidential Information – Not for public release March 2024
Slide 2: Safe Harbor
Safe Harbor The information in this presentation may contain forward-looking statements within the meaning of the Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995. You can identify these statements by use of the words "may," "will," "should," "plans," "explores," "expects," "anticipates," "continue,
Slide 3: The challenges…
The challenges… © Lightwave Logic, Inc. Confidential Information – Not for public release
Slide 4: The Achilles Heel
The Achilles Heel Existing solutions require excessive amounts of power to scale Traffic ExaByte & Electricity Usage (TWh) of Data Centers 2015-2030 3500 Power 3000 2967 TWh Data center power use 2500 Data Centers Electricity Usage (TWh), Best Case is growing Data Centers Electricity Usage (TWh), Expe
Slide 5: New frontiers in electronics and photonics
New frontiers in electronics and photonics G-AI is driving new frontiers in both computational electronics and interconnect photonics Source: Lightwave Logic (LWLG), Arista (2023) 5 © Lightwave Logic, Inc.
Slide 6: What we do…
What we do… © Lightwave Logic, Inc. Confidential Information – Not for public release
Slide 7: Perkinamine Electro-Optic polymers
® Perkinamine Electro-Optic polymers Our polymers are world-class and proven by third parties Electro-optic polymers can be used to fabricate optical modulators We create organic chromophores… dipolar molecule • Designed, simulated and (positive at one modeled in Denver, Colorado end, negative at th
Slide 8: Polymer modulator opportunities
Polymer modulator opportunities Electro-optic polymer modulators for transceivers suppliers Electro-optic EO polymers polymer modulators for Silicon Photonic enable higher platforms Source: ePIX Fab performance data Electro-optic polymer modulators for communications “Other” platforms including opti
Slide 9: EO Polymer material robustness…
EO Polymer material robustness… © Lightwave Logic, Inc. Confidential Information – Not for public release
Slide 10: Design philosophy: optimized reliability & performance
Design philosophy: optimized reliability & performance • World class chromophore design • Very high glass transition temperature (Tg) 🡪 increases EO material lifetime • ~100°C delta between industry spec and Tg • Eliminates need for cross-linking Electro-optic efficiency (r33) • Protects material…
Slide 11: LWLG EO polymer materials have significantly improved…
LWLG EO polymer materials have significantly improved… Box plot of Perkinamine® pre-2018 2018 2019 2020 2021 2022 2023 2024 260 Td Red line at Td = 225°C 220 (Td: Decomposition temperature) arbitrary units 180 Blue line at composite Tg = 170°C (Tg: Glass transition temperature) 140 Tg 100 60 r33 20 r
Slide 12: Heterogeneous integration of polymers with silicon…
Heterogeneous integration of polymers with silicon… © Lightwave Logic, Inc. Confidential Information – Not for public release
Slide 13: Polymers are ideal for silicon foundries…
Polymers are ideal for silicon foundries… High/Logical/simple Silicon Silicon Photonics (SiP) Photonics (SiP) Silicon Foundry depletion mode Ring Resonator Electro-optic polymers Compatibility Indium Electro-optic Phosphide Polymer (InP) Plasmonics Barium Figure of Merit Lithium Titanate Thin Film (
Slide 14: Silicon foundry 200mm Silicon wafers
Silicon foundry 200mm Silicon wafers Volume scale silicon slot designs on 200mm wafers 14 © Lightwave Logic, Inc.
Slide 15: Heterogeneous Polymer Slot Modulator
Heterogeneous Polymer Slot Modulator Our polymers are easily fabricated in silicon fabs 🡪 ideal for heterogenous integration • Heterogeneous integration of polymer on Silicon Photonics Platform • Low drive voltage and small form factor for low power consumption and high density • Very high…
Slide 16: Cross-section of fully etched slot waveguide
Cross-section of fully etched slot waveguide Depth ~ 200 nm Bottom = 60 nm Top = 90 nm Box Si Rail Rail ~ 250 nm 100 nm Clean, sharp silicon slots with width <100 nm, sidewall angle > 86o © Lightwave Logic, Inc. 16
Slide 17: Heterogeneous integration of polymer and silicon
Heterogeneous integration of polymer and silicon E-field simulation Optical mode simulation 17 © Lightwave Logic, Inc.
Slide 18: Low voltage drive polymer slot modulator
Low voltage drive polymer slot modulator Modulator Transmission Function Vπ=0.8 V Optical Power (Arb Units) • Very low drive voltage 2.0 • Drive Voltage 1.0 Can be directly driven (V) 0 Vπ from CMOS -1.0 -2.0 Vπ is the drive voltage required to drive the modulator through a full cycle; optical • Fab
Slide 19: Packaged slot modulator performance
Packaged slot modulator performance • Uniform low ex-coupling loss across 4 packaged devices • Uniform low Vπ across 4 packaged device Uniform ex-coupling loss and Vπ polymer performance 19 © Lightwave Logic, Inc.
Slide 20: High BW MZ Polymer Slot Modulator
High BW MZ Polymer Slot™ Modulator EO S21 BW=86 GHz EO Bandwidth=86 GHz EE Bandwidth>110 GHz EO S21 (dB) Enables optical signaling for >200Gbps lanes Frequency (GHz) 20 © Lightwave Logic, Inc.
Slide 21: Packaged polymer modulator demo schematic
Packaged polymer modulator demo schematic PM fiber EO Polymer SHF 100 GHz RF C-Band Tunable Laser SM fiber Modulator in Amp (2 Vpp max) (Polarized) RF 110 GHz High-Speed Package BERT 90:10 Tunable 90 % Remote Head Optical EDFA Bandpass (0.9 Vpp max Splitter Filter single-ended output) 10 % Optical P
Slide 22: 200Gbps packaged polymer slot
200Gbps packaged polymer slot 90 Gbaud, 180 Gbit/s, Vdrive < 2 V 100 Gbaud, 200 Gbit/s, Vdrive < 2 V Drive Voltage <2V Up to 100GBaud PAM4 (200Gbps) 53 Gbaud, 106 Gbit/s, Vdrive < 2 V 53 Gbaud, 106 Gbit/s, Vdrive < 2 V Open eyes… Open eyes… Open eyes… 22 © Lightwave Logic, Inc.
Slide 23: 3rd party use of Perkinamine LWLG polymers
rd 3 party use of Perkinamine® LWLG polymers • EO polymers used for 400Gbps lanes in plasmonic slot devices • Paper to be presented this week at OFC (W4H.5) • Potential for 4 channel x 400Gbps pluggable transceiver at 1.6Tbps (1600Gbps). NB: Paper to be presented at OFC 2024: Presentation ID: W4H.5
Slide 24: Reliability
Reliability © Lightwave Logic, Inc. Confidential Information – Not for public release
Slide 25: Modulator Thermal Stability (TS)
Modulator Thermal Stability (TS) ▪ The Vπ on 20 modulators is stable over 6000hrs. ▪ The average shift over ~ 6000hours is 1.2% and it is within the margin of error of the test setup. Modulator Vπ stable after 6000 hrs 25 © Lightwave Logic, Inc.
Slide 26: Photostability vs Voltage and Insertion Loss
Photostability vs Voltage and Insertion Loss Photo-Induced Change in Vπ Photo-Induced Change in IL Average % shift for 8 packaged modulators. Average IL shift for 8 packaged modulators Optical Intensity = 0.5MW/cm2 Optical Intensity = 0.5MW/cm2 Long and short-term No obvious degradation after 4300 N
Slide 27: Our business model is innovative…
Our business model is innovative… © Lightwave Logic, Inc. Confidential Information – Not for public release
Slide 28: Implementing a new technology platform…
Implementing a new technology platform… Licensing model provides inherent scalability Technology 3 Prong Strategy Goals Chromophore & Make polymers ubiquitous Polymer Matrix IP Product (just like OLEDs) Sales Have device/PIC teams use Devices & PIC EO polymers in their Architecture IP Patent device/
Slide 29: Heterogeneous integration takeaways…
Heterogeneous integration takeaways… • Our heterogeneous polymer/silicon platform is poised to become ubiquitous (just like OLED polymer material) • We are open to license our material, do technology transfer, and to leverage your position in the market-place… • EO polymers continue to show technica
Slide 30: Thank you for listening
Marketing Contact: Atikem Haile-Mariam Atikem.haile@lightwavelogic.com Faster by Design Thank you for listening 369 Inverness Parkway, Suite 350 lightwavelogic.com © Lightwave Logic, Inc. Confidential Information – Not for public release Englewood, CO 80112
Slide 31: BACK-UP
BACK-UP © Lightwave Logic, Inc. Confidential Information – Not for public release
Slide 32: 3rd party verification…
3rd party verification… © Lightwave Logic, Inc. Confidential Information – Not for public release
Slide 33: 3rd party use of Perkinamine LWLG polymers
rd 3 party use of Perkinamine® LWLG polymers • EO polymer used in different device designs • Silicon slot, plasmonic slot, plasmonic ring resonator • All produced world class results* • Presentations at industry conferences Sources*: KIT, SilOriX, EU Horizon 2020, ETH Zurich, Polariton, CAU Universi
Slide 34: EO polymers are competitive with semiconductor modulators…
EO polymers are competitive with semiconductor modulators… © Lightwave Logic, Inc. Confidential Information – Not for public release
Slide 35: Polymer attributes are impressive…
Polymer attributes are impressive… Silicon* Indium Phosphide* Lithium Niobate* Barium Titanate* High speed High speed High speed High speed 5 5 5 5 4 4 4 4 3 3 3 3 2 2 2 2 1 1 1 1 0 Size 0 0 Size 0 Size Stability Stability Size Stability Stability Micro-resonator Thin-Film LN Low power Low power Low
Slide 36: Design for Reliability: glass transition temperature (Tg)
How important is glass transition temperature (Tg)? Lifetime at 85oC vs Tg The thermal lifetime of an EO-polymer against thermally induced depoling material at 85oC will Design for increase with increasing Tg Reliability: >107 Increasing Tg 🡪 The lifetime at 85oC for a polymer with Tg means much…