Company: AAOI
Filing Date: 2025-04-10
Form Type: S-8
Source: 0001104659-25-033793
Chunk: 5

Company: APPLIED OPTOELECTRONICS, INC.
Filing Date: 2025-04-10
Form: S-8
Chunk 5
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 Texas on April 10, 2025.

| APPLIED OPTOELECTRONICS, INC. |                                       |
| By:                           | /S/ CHIH-HSIANG (THOMPSON) LIN        |
|                               | Chih-Hsiang (Thompson) Lin            |
|                               | President and Chief Executive Officer |

<div align='center'>POWER OF ATTORNEY</div>

KNOW ALL PERSONS BY THESE
PRESENTS, that each person whose signature appears below constitutes and appoints Chih-Hsiang (Thompson) Lin and Dr. Stefan J. Murry,
and each of them, his true and lawful attorneys-in-fact and agents, with full power of substitution, for him and in his name, place and
stead, in any and all capacities, to sign any and all amendments (including post-effective amendments) to this registration statement
and to file the same with all exhibits thereto, and other documents in connection therewith, with the Securities and Exchange Commission,
granting unto said attorneys-in-fact and agents full power and authority to do and perform each and every act and thing requisite and
necessary to be done in connection therewith, as fully and to all intents and purposes as they might or could not in person, hereby ratifying
and confirming all that said attorneys-in-fact and agents or any of them, or their or his substitute or substitutes may lawfully do or
cause to be done by virtue hereof.

Pursuant to the requirements
of the Securities Act of 1933, this registration statement has been signed by the following persons in the capacities and on the date
indicated.

| Signature                                                                 
 /s/ Chih-Hsiang (Thompson) Lin                                            |     | Date           
 April 10, 2025 |
|:--------------------------------------------------------------------------|:----|:---------------|
| Chih-Hsiang (Thompson) Lin                                                |     |                |
| President, Chief Executive Officer and Chairman of the Board of Directors |     |                |
| (Principal Executive Officer)                                             |     |                |
| /s/ STEFAN J. MURRY                                                       |     | April 10, 2025 |
| Stefan J. Murry                                                           |     |                |
| Chief Financial Officer                                                   |     |                |
| (Principal Financial Officer and Principal Accounting Officer)            |     |                |
| /s/ William H. Yeh                                                        |     | April 10, 2025 |
| William