Company: AAOI
Filing Date: 2025-06-02
Form Type: DEFA14A
Source: 0001104659-25-055505
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Company: APPLIED OPTOELECTRONICS, INC.
Filing Date: 2025-06-02
Form: DEFA14A
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 regarding Proposal No. 5 — Approval of Amendment                                                       
 of our Certificate of Incorporation to Increase the Number of Authorized Shares of Capital Stock and Common Stock in connection with the 
 withdrawal of Withdrawn Proposal No. 4. Proposal No. 5 has been renumbered as Proposal No. 4 (“Proposal No. 4”)                          
 and is now classified as a “routine” item. As a result, a broker who has not received instruction from its clients will have             
 the discretion to vote its clients’ uninstructed shares on Proposal No. 4. Accordingly, the Company is hereby revising the               
 information in the Proxy Statement to state that, in addition to Proposal No. 2 — Ratification of Appointment                            
 of Independent Registered Public Accounting Firm, Proposal No. 4 is a “routine”                                                          
 proposal for which there will be no broker non-votes because a broker will be permitted to exercise its discretion to vote uninstructed  
 shares on this proposal.                                                                                                                 |

The Company will hold the
Annual Meeting as previously scheduled on Thursday, June 12, 2025, at 9:30 a.m. Central Time, at our principal offices at 13139
Jess Pirtle Blvd., Sugar Land, TX 77478. At the Annual Meeting, the Company intends to present each of Proposals No. 1, 2, 3, and
4 for a vote by stockholders at the Annual Meeting. No vote will be taken with respect to Withdrawn Proposal No. 4 at the
Annual Meeting.

Important Matters Regarding Voting

| · | The Company will make available or distribute a new proxy card, and stockholders do not need to submit 
 new proxy or voting instructions, solely as a result of the withdrawal of Withdrawn Proposal No. 4.    |

| · | Validly submitted proxies or voting instructions received with direction on Withdrawn Proposal No. 4                                
 will not be voted on Withdrawn Proposal No. 4 at the Annual Meeting. Validly submitted proxies or voting instructions received and  
 providing direction on the remaining proposals to be considered at the Annual Meeting (i.e., Proposals No. 1, 2, and 3 and Proposal 
 No. 4) will remain valid, and will be voted on those proposals as directed (or, if no direction is given, “FOR” each                
 of the three Class III directors named in the Proxy Statement as nominees for director in Proposal