Company: AAOI
Filing Date: 2025-04-10
Form Type: S-8
Source: 0001104659-25-033793
Chunk: 2

Company: APPLIED OPTOELECTRONICS, INC.
Filing Date: 2025-04-10
Form: S-8
Chunk 2
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 Registrant’s Common Stock set forth in Exhibit 4.7 of the Registrant’s Annual Report on Form 10-K for                  
 its fiscal year ended December 31, 2023 filed with the Commission on February 23, 2024, together with any amendment or 
 report filed with the Commission for the purpose of updating such description.                                         |

In addition, all documents
filed by the Registrant pursuant to Sections 13(a), 13(c), 14, or 15(d) of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as amended (the “Exchange
Act”) (excluding any portions thereof furnished by the Registrant, including, but not limited to, information furnished under Item
2.02 and Item 7.01 and any exhibits relating to Item 2.02 or Item 7.01 furnished under Item 9.01 of Form 8-K and any certification
required by 18 U.S.C. § 1350), subsequent to the filing of this Registration Statement and prior to the filing of a post-effective
amendment to this Registration Statement which indicates that all securities hereby offered have been sold or which deregisters all securities
then remaining unsold, shall be deemed to be incorporated by reference into this Registration Statement and to be a part hereof from the
date of filing of such documents.

Any statement contained in
this Registration Statement or in a document incorporated or deemed to be incorporated by reference in this Registration Statement shall
be deemed to be modified or superseded for purposes of this Registration Statement to the extent that a statement contained in this Registration
Statement or in any subsequently filed document that also is deemed to be incorporated by reference in this Registration Statement modifies
or supersedes such statement.

| Item 8. | Exhibits. |

| Exhibit 
 Number  |     | Description                                                                                                      |
| 4.1     |     | Common                                                                                                           
 Stock Specimen (incorporated by reference to Exhibit 4.1 to the Registrant’s Current Report on Form 8-K filed on 
 November 14, 2016 (File No. 001-36083)).                                                                         |
| 5.1     |     | Opinion of Pillsbury Winthrop Shaw Pittman LLP.                                                                  |
| 23.1    |     | Consent of Pillsbury Winthrop Shaw Pittman LLP (included in Exhibit 5.1).                                        |
| 23.2    |     | Consent of Grant Thornton LLP, independent registered public accounting firm