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Hi John!

This past year IBM announced that they plan to spend $3 billion over the next five years to develop technologies for the post-silicon era. The areas of interest are quantum computing, carbon nanotubes, silicon photonics, III-V technologies, and neurosynaptic computing.

In your opinion, which do you think holds the most promise for becoming commercialized over the next decade?

Awesome! Thanks for the reply.

If I may...I've been following silicon photonic technologies for the past several years...more specifically electro-optic polymers.

George Lauro was a former director of technology commercialization at IBM, maybe you know him. But he recently joined a small startup working on high performance EO polymers. The company is called Lightwave Logic.

I wouldn't be surprised if Lightwave's polymers have made their way into IBM R&D labs.

You just made my day, John.

Hey Jose, Carlos, and the EPIC team!

Longtime friend of Lightwave Logic, here.

Thank you for your tremendous efforts in helping spread awareness of photonics technologies and where the industry is heading in the future.

Your YouTube channel is filled with immensely valuable educational content from so many different leaders in the industry. I advise anyone that is curious to check them out.

Question…So how surprised were you to see that Polariton and Lightwave collaborated on building a plasmonic modulator that broke a world record in speed? It was announced about a month ago.

What’s next…a collaboration between Ayar Labs and LWLG where their EO polymer materials are applied to micro ring resonators to boost performance? (I know you can’t answer that!)

I’d love to see Lightwave develop spatial light modulators for LIDAR applications.

Do you believe Lightwave’s technology will become “ubiquitous” as Dr. Michael Lebby has been saying lately?

Edit: tagging u/carlosleephotonics