Patent ID: 9046704
Filing Date: 2015-06-02
Classification: G02F

Abstract:
1. An optical waveguide device, comprising: a layer-stack comprising wherein the first electrode layer comprises a regular two-dimensional array of planar arranged and individually addressable first electrodes to activate the electro-optic effect in the region of the electro-optic core layer by an electric field generated by individually applying electric potentials to addressed first electrodes, and wherein the electrode arrangement comprises, arranged in proximity and on a same side of the electro-optic core layer as the first electrode layer, a further electrode layer in parallel to the first electrode layer, the further electrode layer comprising a plurality of individually addressable further electrodes, arranged such that a position of a further electrode laterally intermediates positions of two neighbouring first electrodes in order to minimize electrical field inhomogeneities due to lateral electrode separation, wherein the region, in which the electro-optic effect is activated, represents an optical pathway permitting propagation of light such that the shape of the optical pathway is determined by the pattern of addressed electrodes.