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Leading technology platform company Lightwave Logic has been issued US Patents No. 10,509,164 and 10,511,146 from the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) to support the photonic integration of its polymer modulator technical platform.
Lightwave Logic's Faster by Design technology is a high-speed active integrated optics platform using the company's own high-performance Perkinamine polymer materials. This platform is being designed to integrate into current semiconductor platforms, while also being uniquely capable of extending to higher speeds and lower electrical power consumption, a requirement for the next-generation fiber optic transceiver market.
Both patents describe breakthroughs related to integrating semiconductor lasers with polymer devices, such as modulators, to make a complete transmitter. The guide transition devices and methodology for guiding light from semiconductor lasers in layers of polymers on a semiconductor substrate—and more particularly, to transition light from one layer to another—provide the distinct advantages of reduced optical loss, cross-talk and other interference.
The patents also describe increased alignment tolerance between various planes—or layers of the polymer device—as well as between the polymer device and externally attached optical fibers. As alignment tolerance is increased, the manufacturing ease of guided wave optical devices also increases.
The addition of these patents increases Lightwave Logic's domestic and international portfolio to 47 patents issued.
