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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Mar. 04, 2003
Filed:
Oct. 30, 2000
Thomas Bifano, Mansfield, MA (US);
Mark Horenstein, West Roxbury, MA (US);
The Trustees of Boston University, Boston, MA (US);
Abstract
Method and apparatus for forming an array of reflective elements for spatial light modulation. The array includes a substrate supporting electronically addressable actuators, each associated with a corresponding reflective element, a coupling attaching each actuator to the corresponding reflective element to place each reflective element in a substantially planar surface. Each electronically addressable actuator responds to predetermined addressing from a processing circuit to reposition the corresponding reflective element out of the planar surface a predetermined distance identified in the predetermined electronic addressing.