Lightwave Logic Signs A Development Agreement With Tower Semiconductor To Enable Leading High-speed Optical Modulators On Tower's PH18 Silicon Photonics Platform Based On Lightwave Logic's EO Polymer Modulator Technology

Lightwave Logic, Inc. (NASDAQ:LWLG) ("The Company"), 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 the signing of a development agreement with Tower Semiconductor ("Tower") to enable leading high-speed optical modulators on Tower's PH18 silicon photonics platform based on Lightwave Logic's EO polymer modulator technology.

Under the agreement, Tower and Lightwave Logic will collaborate to integrate Lightwave Logic compact and power efficient modulator reference designs targeting bandwidths of 110GHz and beyond into Tower's PH18 silicon photonics process design kit (PDK). This integration is intended to enable Tower customers to more efficiently design and implement compact, high-performance optical modulators for 400G per lane applications within their photonic integrated circuits.

The development program will include multiple engineering tapeouts during 2026 to validate performance targets for low-power 200G and 400G modulator architectures. These capabilities are designed to support the growing requirements of AI scale-up and scale-out architectures, as well as other high-performance computing, networking, and advanced photonic applications where bandwidth density and energy efficiency are critical.