Applied Optoelectronics, Inc. (NASDAQ:AAOI) Files An 8-K Submission of Matters to a Vote of Security Holders

Item5.07

Applied Optoelectronics, Inc. (the Company) held its 2017 annual
meeting of stockholders on June 8, 2017. Holders of an aggregate
of 18,986,790 shares of the Companys common stock at the close of
business on April 10, 2017 were entitled to vote at the meeting,
of which 14,366,623, or 75.67%, of the eligible shares were
represented in person or by proxy.The matters voted upon at the
meeting and the results of those votes were as follows:

Proposal 1: Election of Class I Directors

Proposal 2: Approval of an amendment (the Share Reserve
Amendment) to increase the number of shares reserved for issuance
under the Applied Optoelectronics,Inc. Amended and Restated 2013
Equity Incentive Plan (the Plan).

Proposal 3: To (i)approve the attached amended and restated
Plan in order to (a)extend the term of the Plan through June8,
2027, (b)provide the plan administrator with the authority to
effectuate net tax withholding obligations up to the maximum
amount otherwise required to be withheld by the applicable taxing
jurisdiction; and (c)make other technical or otherwise
non-material revisions thereto, and (ii)approve the material
terms of the performance goals for awards that may be granted
under the Plan as required under Section162(m) of the Internal
Revenue Code, as amended (Section162(m)).

Proposal 4: Ratification of the appointment of Grant Thornton
LLP as independent registered public accounting firm for the
fiscal year ending December31, 2017

About Applied Optoelectronics, Inc. (NASDAQ:AAOI)

Applied Optoelectronics, Inc. is a vertically integrated provider of fiber-optic networking products. The Company offers its products for approximately three networking end markets, such as Internet data center; cable television (CATV), and fiber-to-the-home (FTTH). The Company designs and manufactures a range of optical communications products at varying levels of integration, from components, subassemblies and modules to turnkey equipment. The Company’s customers in the Internet data center market include Internet-based (Web 2.0) data center operators, to whom it supplies optical transceivers that plug into switches and servers within the data center, and allow these network devices to send and receive data over fiber optic cables. To the CATV market, it supplies a range of products, including lasers, transmitters and turnkey equipment, as well as headend, node and distribution equipment. Its manufacturing sites are located at Sugar Land, Texas; Ningbo, China, and Taipei, Taiwan.