Liquid crystal (LC) elements with an electrically controlled spatial topology of director orienta tion have been developed and manufactured. Waveguide light beam propagation mode in a spatially struc tured LC cell has been realized for the first time; the possibility of creating electrically controlled waveguide dividers and adders has been demonstrated experimentally.
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