Lightwave Logic and UCB complete first optical structures for integrated optical devices

June 10, 2013
Newark, DE and Boulder, CO--Lightwave Logic, Inc. (otcqb:LWLG), along with Alan Mickelson and his colleagues at the University of Colorado, Boulder (UCB), have completed the first set of optical structures to be used as the basic building blocks of the team's integrated-optical-device effort for high-speed fiber-optic data communications and optical computing applications.

Newark, DE and Boulder, CO--Lightwave Logic, Inc. (otcqb:LWLG), along with Alan Mickelson and his colleagues at the University of Colorado, Boulder (UCB), have completed the first set of optical structures to be used as the basic building blocks of the team's integrated-optical-device effort for high-speed fiber-optic data communications and optical computing applications. Lightwave Logic will also be consolidating work done by EM Photonics (Newark, DE) into the UCB program; EM Photonics is developing an advanced optical modulator for telecommunications.

The optical devices in the next-generation nonlinear optical-polymer materials platform consist of a Mach-Zehnder interferometric modulator and waveguide structures that have been successfully fabricated with one of the Perkinamine-family advanced electro-optical polymers (Perkinamine polymers were created by Lightwave logic).

"We have found that the structures produced at UCB are compatible with our materials and their device structure and processes have already been passively tested," says Tom Zelibor, chairman and CEO of Lightwave Logic. "The next step will be to determine the electronic coupling design and poling process to calculate the resulting electro-optical activity of the Perkinamine family of materials. With satisfactory results, we can begin the final assembly of initial prototypes. When working prototypes are in hand, we will demonstrate to potential customers, some whom we have already worked with previously."

Zelibor notes that these customers represent a total market of many billions of dollars.

For more info, see www.lightwavelogic.com

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