Company: AAOI
Filing Date: 2025-04-28
Form Type: DEF 14A
Source: 0001104659-25-040212
Chunk: 88

Company: APPLIED OPTOELECTRONICS, INC.
Filing Date: 2025-04-28
Form: DEF 14A
Chunk 88
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. To consider and vote on the amendment of our Amended and Restated Certificate of Incorporation, as amended (the "Certificate of Incorporation"),to clarify the voting standard that applies to certain future amendments.5. To consider and vote on the amendment of our Certificate of Incorporation to increase the number of authorized shares of capital stock and commonstock.NOTE: In their discretion, the Proxies (or their substitutes) are authorized to vote upon such other business as may properly come before the meeting orany adjournment or postponement of the meeting including, without limitation, procedural and other matters related to the conduct of the meeting (suchas adjournment to a later time or place) and the election of a substitute or alternate nominee if any nominee named above is unwilling or unable to, or forgood cause will not, serve if elected.Please sign exactly as your name(s) appear(s) hereon. When signing as attorney, executor, administrator, or other fiduciary, please give full title as such.Joint owners should each sign personally. If a corporation, limited liability company, or partnership, please sign in full corporate, limited liability company, orpartnership name by authorized officer or person.Signature [PLEASE SIGN WITHIN BOX] Date Signature (Joint Owners) Date TABLE OF CONTENTS P32018Important Notice Regarding the Availability of Proxy Materials for the Annual Meeting:The Notice and Proxy Statement and Annual Report are available at www.proxyvote.com.APPLIED OPTOELECTRONICS, INC.Annual Meeting of StockholdersJune 12, 2025 9:30 A.M. Central TimeThis proxy is solicited by the Board of DirectorsThestockholder(s), revoking all prior proxies heretofore given, hereby appoint(s) Chih-Hsiang (Thompson) Lin and David Kuo, and each of them, as proxies, each with the power to appoint his substitute, and hereby authorize(s) them to represent and to vote, as designated on the reverse side hereof, all of the shares of common stock of APPLIED OPTOELECTRONICS, INC. that the stockholder(s) is/are entitled to vote at the Annual Meeting of Stockholders to be held at 9:30 A.M. Central Time onJune 12, 2025, at 13139 Jess Pirtle Blvd., Sugar Land, TX 77478, and any adjournment or postponement thereof.This proxy, when properly executed, will be voted in the manner directed herein. If no