PRESENTATION
From Materials to Silicon Photonics PDKs: Scaling Foundry Platforms to 400G and Beyond
Electro-optic polymers have reached key milestones in performance, stability, and manufacturability. Enabling commercial adoption requires integration into silicon photonics foundries, photonic PDKs, and the broader design ecosystem. We will provide an update on recent technical and commercial progress and discuss how designers and customers can leverage these materials to achieve substantially higher bandwidth and improved energy efficiency in next-generation photonic integrated circuits.
Robert Blum
Lightwave Logic
Dr. Robert Blum joined Lightwave Logic in May 2025 as its Senior Vice President of Sales and Marketing, bringing extensive direct industry expertise in silicon photonics, polymers, AI, and semiconductors. He has over 20 years of experience in strategic marketing and sales at some of the world's largest semiconductor and silicon photonics companies, along with a demonstrated track record in customer acquisition and accelerating revenue growth. Robert earned his MS in Physics at TU Darmstadt in Germany and his Ph.D. in Physics/Electrical Engineering from Hamburg University of Technology. He was also a visiting scholar at Stanford University in California.