MICHAEL LEBBY ELECTRO-OPTIC POLYMERS
How do you see the future of electro-optic polymers in telecoms? As I said, it’s not easy to get a brand-new platform accepted in the telecom and the datacom
and not change the infrastructure. That’s a good win, and if you have a technology that is neutral to either co-packaging or pluggable solutions, then you have a really interesting technology platform that has merit.
switch or modulate light, it will actually have some impact. I look at it as two buckets. One is the fibre-based bucket, which is where we are today, and then there’s the free space bucket where there’s lots of free space sensing type opportunities where this could be really useful in areas such as optical sensing, LIDAR and optical computing etc..
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How do you plan to market electro-optic polymers and take the company forward? Lightwave Logic is a public company and we’re listed on NASDAQ, but we want to create a
environment. Look at the time it took for the large organic polymer companies to get OLED technology accepted. 15 years ago, all displays used LCDs, but today, everything is OLED. The fact is, these companies did enough testing on reliability, stability, robustness, and lifetime, to understand the failure mechanisms and mitigate them. We’re in
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standalone company. That’s why we’re not just trying to sell the devices, we supply electro-optic material through license agreements. Indeed, optical component players tend to get acquired, so we’ve come up with a business model that’s allows for high margins and good profitability. Our licensing model is designed to make sure our electro-optic material can scale, and folks that are even outside the industry can use it. I can’t stop people from kicking the tires if people really like what we’re doing, but certainly where we are today is we want to create a standalone company that really drives this material into modulator products and drives it, not only into the fibre optic communications arena, but also into quantum, storage, and space applications. I mean, there are other opportunities where when you apply a small battery level voltage and you can
the same game and so we are implementing the same things.
We’re showing the data centre folks that we have a technology platform that can scale in performance, not only in speed, but also in low power and the ease of manufacturing. Electro- optic polymers are a disruptive new technology and there’s many companies with disruptive new technology platforms and we’re just one of them. However, if your disruptive technology platform requires your network infrastructure to be disruptive, it’s probably not going to work that well, so you want to have a disruptive technology platform that has great performance but can slot or fit into an existing network and infrastructure, and that’s what we are aiming for. If you can you upgrade the optical components
Dr Michael Lebby, Chief Executive Officer, Lightwave Logic Inc.
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