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Lightwave Logic's Perkinamine Indigo Helps Overcome Speed Limitations in Optical Computing
By Madhubanti Rudra
TMCnet Contributor
Lightwave Logic, Inc., a start-up technology firm focused on the development of a next generation, non-linear optical polymer materials platform for applications in high speed fiber-optic tele- and data communications, announced the introduction of a new Organic Nonlinear Material called Perkinamine.
A press release revealed that the company is currently engaged in the development of Spatial Light Modulator (SLM) using Perkinamine. The use of this new material can offer a billion-fold improvement to the performances of Spatial Light Modulators, the company claimed. On completion of a working prototype, the company will commercialize the technology through a partner network.
Spatial light modulator is a device that can format information for an optical computer. A Spatial Light Modulator can be considered the heart of an optical computer in the way that a CPU is the core of a digital computer.
In a conference call with shareholders on January 25, 2012, Terry Turpin, Lightwave Logic's Optical Computing Expert discussed about the many advantages of a Spatial Light Modulator (SLM). Most of the machine intelligence applications like, facial recognition, pattern recognition and speech recognition are based on Spatial Light Modulators.
Perkinamine Indigo, which is being used in the development of SLM, has electro-optical properties (r33) in excess of 250 picometers per volt. Company CEO Jim Marcelli said that the material would place LWLG in the forefront of organic electro-optical technology. The Perkinamine Indigo will allow the companies to design modulator devices that will be able to exceed the performance of existing legacy infrastructure in both telecommunications and data communications markets.
“The progress of Optical Computing has been limited by legacy liquid crystal display (LCD) technology which while effective, can only refresh at 10 to 30 millisecond intervals. Because of the extremely fast response time of Lightwave Logic's organic nonlinear optical materials are in the range of a picoseconds (one-billionth of a second versus LCD at 10 to 30-thousands of a second), improvement in performance could be a billion-fold,” Turpin, who is a recognized expert in optical computing said in a statement.
Earlier this year Lightwave Logic appointed Fred J. Leonberger as a senior advisor to the company. Leonberger is currently the principal of EOvation Advisors, a technology and business advisory firm that he founded in 2003. He serves on the Board of Directors of several venture-funded photonics companies and has been a senior advisor at the MIT ( News - Alert) Center for Integrated Photonic Systems.
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