Start-up technology company Lightwave Logic, Inc., has opened its headquarters in Longmont, Colo. The company had been based near Newark.
Lightwave Logic develops materials and devices for high-speed fiber-optic data communications and optical computing. The 5,000-square-foot location near Boulder, Colo. will serve as headquarters and phtonic device facility.
The company has also started construction on a clean room within the facility for technology circuits.
The clean room and other facilities in Colorado will enhance Lightwave’s capability to manufacture prototype photonic devices for the defense, commercial telecom, and data communications industries. The company’s synthetic chemistry facilities will remain in Delaware to leverage the analytical chemistry talent base available in that region.
The company’s sponsored research agreement with the Dr. Alan Mickleson’s Guided Wave Optics Laboratory at the University of Colorado Boulder.
Tom Zelibor, CEO of Lightwave Logic said, “Having our own sophisticated facility will allow us to more efficiently develop devices to penetrate major telecom and datacom opportunities. This location is also in close proximity to photonics companies engaged in a variety of technologies such as defense LADAR, parallel optical computing, cloud server technologies and secure optical communication networks that if combined Lightwave Logic’s electro-optic polymer technology, could have distinct competitive differentiation.
“Our long-range plan is to have direct control of all proprietary fabrication processes under this vertically integrated facility where we can provide design support and production capability of complex waveguides, modulators, transceivers, and optical thin film component assemblies for our current partnerships and potential new customers.”
The Boulder County Business Reports said the facility will initially have about five employees in Colorado and about the same number in Delaware. Lightwave Logic stock is traded in the over-the-counter market. The Boulder area has a booming technology corridor aided by the presence of the research at the University of Colorado and a number of long-standing tech employers.
