Abstract

Electro-optical polymers obtain very attractive features - such as large electro-optical coefficient, possibility to make waveguides, photoconductivity and photorefractivity, as well as very important technological features - ability to stay under photolithography, material engineering to change some physical or chemical properties which do not influence others parameters and simple film technology. Some weaknesses such as the lack of stability under chemical environment could be avoided by encapsulating with other more stable polymers. With all these features in mind we suggest new structures of Spatial Light Arrayed Modulator (SLAM) for modulation of light beams with 2-dimentional access to the each of pixels in it.

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