Company: AAOI
Filing Date: 2025-04-10
Form Type: S-8
Source: 0001104659-25-033793
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Company: APPLIED OPTOELECTRONICS, INC.
Filing Date: 2025-04-10
Form: S-8
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 a new registration statement relating to the securities offered therein, and the offering of such securities 
 at that time shall be deemed to be the initial bona fide offering thereof.                                                                   |

| (3) | To remove from registration by means of a post-effective amendment any of the securities being registered 
 which remain unsold at the termination of the offering.                                                   |

| (b) | The undersigned Registrant hereby undertakes that, for purposes of determining any liability under the                                   
 Securities Act, each filing of the Registrant’s annual report pursuant to Section 13(a) or Section 15(d) of                              
 the Exchange Act (and, where applicable, each filing of an employee benefit plan’s annual report pursuant to Section 15(d) of            
 the Exchange Act) that is incorporated by reference in this Registration Statement shall be deemed to be a new registration statement    
 relating to the securities offered therein, and the offering of such securities at that time shall be deemed to be the initial bona fide 
 offering thereof.                                                                                                                        |

| (c) | Insofar as indemnification for liabilities arising under the Securities Act may be permitted to directors,                                    
 officers, and controlling persons of the Registrant pursuant to the foregoing provisions, or otherwise, the Registrant has been advised       
 that in the opinion of the Commission such indemnification is against public policy as expressed in the Securities Act and is, therefore,     
 unenforceable. In the event that a claim for indemnification against such liabilities (other than the payment by the Registrant of expenses   
 incurred or paid by a director, officer, or controlling person of the Registrant in the successful defense of any action, suit or proceeding) 
 is asserted by such director, officer, or controlling person in connection with the securities being registered, the Registrant will,         
 unless in the opinion of its counsel the matter has been settled by controlling precedent, submit to a court of appropriate jurisdiction      
 the question whether such indemnification by it is against public policy as expressed in the Securities Act and will be governed by the       
 final adjudication of such issue.                                                                                                             |

<div align='center'>SIGNATURES</div>

Pursuant to the requirements
of the Securities Act of 1933, the Registrant certifies that it has reasonable grounds to believe that it meets all of the requirements
for filing on Form S-8 and has duly caused this registration statement to be signed on its behalf by the undersigned, thereunto duly
authorized, in the City of Sugar Land, State of