Lightwave Logic Receives 2024 Industry Innovation Award for Hybrid PIC/Optical
Integration Platform at the European Conference on Optical Communications (ECOC)
Award Granted by ECOC Exhibition Industry Awards Committee, Composed of Telecom and Datacom Industrial
Corporations
Award Again Recognizes Lightwave Logic's EO Polymer Material and Technology as a Leading Innovation Amongst
the Industry
ENGLEW OOD, Colo., Sept. 24, 2024 /PRNewswire/ -- Lightwave Logic, Inc. (NASDAQ: LW LG), a technology
platform company leveraging its proprietary electro-optic (EO) polymers to transmit data at higher speeds with less
power in a small form factor, today announced that it has received the 2024 Industry Award for Most Innovative Hybrid
PIC/Optical Integration Platform from the European Conference on Optical Communications (ECOC), a premier
industry exhibition held in Frankfurt, Germany from September 22-26, 2024.
The ECOC Exhibition Awards highlight exceptional achievements in advancing the business of optical communications,
transport, networking, fiber-based products, photonic integration circuits and related developments. The awards, granted
by a technical committee of industry peers and industrial corporations, indicate market recognition and cover 2 broad
value-chain categories: Optical materials, components, packages, modules etc.; and Optical Systems, networks,
standards, architecture etc.
"Lightwave Logic is honored to receive the Award for Most Innovative Hybrid PIC/Optical Integration Platform on behalf
of Lightwave Logic for the second time, granted by a committee of industry peers, reflecting true market recognition of
our technology," said Dr. Michael Lebby, Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of Lightwave Logic. "Since winning the
award in 2023, we have continued to demonstrate our leadership in the photonics industry with outstanding 200Gbps per
lane performance for our technologies that aligns well with datacenter expectations today. This award serves as a
highlight amidst our ongoing engagement with a wide spectrum of companies discussing device designs to materials
supply and licensing agreements for our EO polymer materials with OEMs and tier-1 multinational corporations. We are
confident in the implicit competitive advantage of our solution to support datacenters around the world which are
responding to the burgeoning demand for higher speed data transmission from artificial intelligence, machine learning,
and other cloud-based services.
"ECOC is one of the leading global industry conferences on optical communications, adding to the recognition for this
particular innovation award, which provides further market validation of our technology and provides industry peer
confirmation of the inherent benefits of our platform," concluded Lebby.
An awards ceremony was held live at the ECOC Exhibition in the Product Focus theatre on Tuesday, September 24,
2024, from 11:45 a.m. Central European time, where Lightwave Logic was presented with the award