Lightwave Logic opens new corporate headquarters in Colorado, US

Published: 19-Feb-2014

Also building a Class 100 cleanroom for prototype and pre-production runs of hybrid technology circuits


Lightwave Logic, a US developer of next-generation photonic devices and non-linear optical polymers for applications in high speed fibre-optic data communications and optical computing, has opened a new 5,000ft2 (464.5m2) corporate headquarters and photonic device facility in Longmont, CO, US.

The company has also started to build a Class 100 cleanroom within the facility to be outfitted with planar waveguide fabrication capabilities suitable for prototype and pre-production runs of electro-optic silicon organic hybrid technology circuits.

Lightwave Logic says the cleanroom, along with the new optical testing and electro-optic polymer formulation lab, will significantly enhance its capability to manufacture prototype photonic devices for the defence, commercial telecom, and data communications industries.

The company’s synthetic chemistry facilities will remain in Delaware to take advantage of the analytical chemistry talent pool available in the region.

Technical capabilities within the facility, which is expected to be completed during the second quarter of this year, will be self-contained for prototype development and to accomplish secondary manufacturing steps on silicon organic hybrid devices.

The investment in infrastructure will augment the capacity also available through the company’s sponsored research agreement with the Alan Mickleson’s Guided Wave Optics Laboratory at the University of Colorado Boulder.

'Having our own sophisticated facility will allow us more efficiently to develop devices to penetrate major telecom and datacom opportunities,' said Tom Zelibor, CEO of Lightwave Logic.

The Colorado location is also in close proximity to photonics companies engaged in a variety of technologies such as defence LADAR, parallel optical computing, cloud server technologies and secure optical communication networks.

Zelibor added: 'Our long-range plan is to have direct control of all proprietary fabrication processes under this vertically integrated facility where we can provide design support and production capability of complex waveguides, modulators, transceivers, and optical thin film component assemblies for our current partnerships and potential new customers.'

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