Company: AAOI
Filing Date: 2025-02-28
Form Type: PRE 14A
Source: 0001104659-25-019126
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Company: APPLIED OPTOELECTRONICS, INC.
Filing Date: 2025-02-28
Form: PRE 14A
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-looking statements. These forward-looking statements are inherently uncertain and involve substantial risks and uncertainties that could cause actual results to differ materially from those expressed or implied by such statements. Risks and uncertainties include, among other things, the risk factors contained in our Annual Report on Form 10-K for the year ended December 31, 2024 filed with the SEC and subsequent SEC filings. Readers are cautioned not to place undue reliance on forward-looking statements, which speak only as of the date they are made. Unless required by law, we undertake no obligation to update or revise any forward-looking statements to reflect new information or future events or developments.

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#### APPLIED OPTOELECTRONICS, INC.

#### 13139 Jess Pirtle Blvd., Sugar Land, TX 77478

### PROXY STATEMENT FOR SPECIAL MEETING OF STOCKHOLDERS

#### TO BE HELD ON [       ], 2025
The Board of Directors (the “Board”) of Applied Optoelectronics, Inc. (the “Company”) is soliciting your proxy for a special meeting of stockholders (including any adjournments or postponements thereof, the “Special Meeting”), to be held on [ ], 2025, for the purposes set forth in the accompanying Notice of Special Meeting of Stockholders. This Proxy Statement and related materials are first being mailed to stockholders beginning on or about [ ], 2025. References in this Proxy Statement to the “Company,” “we,” “our,” “us,” “AOI” and “Applied Optoelectronics” are to Applied Optoelectronics, Inc. and its consolidated subsidiaries, and references to the “Special Meeting” are to this Special Meeting of Stockholders, including any adjournments or postponements thereof.

### THE SPECIAL MEETING

#### Record Date
Only stockholders of record of common stock at the close of business on [ ], 2025 (the “Record Date”) will be entitled to notice of and to vote at the Special Meeting. As of the close of business on the Record Date, there were approximately [ ] shares of our common stock outstanding and entitled to vote at the Special Meeting.

#### Quorum
A majority of the shares of common stock entitled to vote as of the close of business on the Record Date, present in person or represented by proxy, shall constitute a quorum for the transaction of business at the Special Meeting. Your shares will be counted towards the qu