Company: AAOI
Filing Date: 2025-04-25
Form Type: 8-K
Source: 0001104659-25-039442
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Company: APPLIED OPTOELECTRONICS, INC.
Filing Date: 2025-04-25
Form: 8-K
Item: Item 8.01
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Item 8.01.        Other Events.

On April 25, 2025, Applied Optoelectronics, Inc.
(the “ Company”) filed a prospectus supplement (the “ Resale Prospectus Supplement”) to its previously filed automatic
shelf registration statement on Form S-3 (File No. 333-283905) registering the resale of up to an aggregate of 7,945,399 shares of
the Company’s common stock, par value $0.001 per share (the “ Shares”), which may be used by the selling stockholder
identified therein (the “ Selling Stockholder”), to resell the Shares.

The Shares are issuable upon the exercise of a
warrant issued pursuant to a Warrant Agreement, dated as of March 13, 2025. The Company will not receive any proceeds from any sale of
Shares by the Selling Stockholder.

The Company is filing this report to provide the
legal opinion as to the validity of the Shares covered by the Resale Prospectus Supplement, which opinion is attached hereto as Exhibit 5.1.