3m Innovative Properties Company

Bing Hao

Michael Albert Haase

Charles A Marttila

Manoj Nirmal

Terry Lee Smith

Raghunath Padiyath

Martin B Wolk

Michael Benton Free

Justin P Meyer

Olester Benson, Jr

Mieczyslaw H Mazurek

Craig R Schardt

John F Reed

Scott Melvyn Tapio

David Adams Ender

Albert I Everaerts

Timothy J Nevitt

William Blake Kolb

Gilles J Benoit

Robert L Brott

Encai Hao

Adam D Haag

Zhaohui Yang

Yongshang Lu

David G Freier

James M Nelson

Jun-Ying Zhang

Evan L Schwartz

Steven J McMan

Myungchan Kang

Karl K Stensvad

Changbao Ma

Erik A Aho

Owen M Anderson

Jonathan F Mansheim

Boon K Lee

Bert T Chien

Michael E Griffin

Keith R Bruesewitz

Seong Taek Lee

Nicholas C Erickson

David A Rosen

Sun-Yong Park

Brianna N Wheeler

Scott M Schnobrich

Stephen M Menke

Jody L Peterson

Brian Kenneth Nelson

Barry S Carpenter

Daniel W Hennen

Gina M Buccellato

Thomas R Hoffend, Jr

Jeremy K Larsen

Jennifer J Sahlin

Stephen Paul LeBlanc

Kevin W Anderson

Karl A Vick

Cheng Tang

Shiwen Chen

Eileen M F Haus

Alberto DeLosSantos

Andrea Alu

Steven J Mcman

Terry L Smith

Adam Overvig

Michele Cotrufo

Xuexue Guo

An organic light emitting diode (OLED) display includes a pixelated OLED display panel and a color-correction component disposed on the pixelated OLED display panel. The pixelated OLED display panel has a ratio of blue-to-red color mixing weights at 30 degrees of β, and a ratio of blue-to-red color mixing weights at 45 degrees of β, where β≥β≥1.05 and 1.5≥β≥1.1. The color-correction component is configured such that a ratio of blue-to-red color mixing weights at 45 degrees of the display is βand a ratio of blue-to-red color mixing weights at 30 degrees of the display is β, where β−0.1≥β≥2.1−βand β−0.05≥β≥2.05−β. Methods of making OLED displays are described.

Organic light emitting diode display with color-correction component having different color mixing weights

An optical ferrule comprises first and second compound stop features respectively disposed at opposing sides of the optical ferrule. Each compound stop feature has upper and lower contact surfaces. The lower contact surface is offset below the mating surface of the optical ferrule along a thickness axis perpendicular to the mating surface. The upper contact surface is offset above the mating surface along the thickness axis. The lower contact surface is offset forward from the upper stop surface along a mating direction of the optical ferrule. A connecting surface connects the upper contact surface and the lower contact surface.

Optical ferrule having compound stops

An OLED display including a display panel and a color-correction component is described. A plurality of comparative display panels otherwise equivalent to the display panel but having one or more different optical thicknesses of OLED layers have a maximum white-point color shift from 0 to 45 degrees of WPCSand a white-point axial efficiency of WPAE. The plurality of comparative display panels defines a performance curve along a boundary of performance points. The OLED display and the display panel have respective maximum white-point color shifts from 0 to 45 degrees of WPCSand WPCSand respective white-point axial efficiencies of WPAE and WPAE. WPCSand WPAEdefines a performance point of the display panel to the right of the performance curve and WPCSand WPAE defines a performance point of the OLED display above or to the left of the performance curve. Methods of making the OLED display are described.

Organic light emitting diode with color-correction for maximum white-point color shift

A light coupling element including a groove and a light redirecting member is described. The groove is for receiving and aligning an optical waveguide and incudes an open front end and a back end. The light redirecting member includes an input side for receiving light from an optical waveguide received and supported in the groove and a light redirecting side for changing a direction of light received from the input side. The groove may include a bottom surface extending between the front and back ends of the groove and including a raised bottom surface portion raised upwardly relative to an unraised bottom surface portion. The unraised bottom surface portion of the bottom surface may be disposed between the raised bottom surface portion of the bottom surface and the input side of the light redirecting member. Optical coupling assemblies including the light coupling element and an optical waveguide are described.

Light coupling element and assembly

An optical connector assembly () includes a housing (), an optical ferrule (); and an optical fiber array (). The housing () has a mating end () and an opposite cable end () and includes: a first housing portion () including a front support () proximate the mating end () and a rear support () disposed between the front support () and the cable end (); and a second housing portion () assembled to the first housing portion () and including a middle support () disposed between the front and rear supports (). The ferrule () is supported by the front support (). Front ends of optical fibers of the optical fiber array () are received by and attached to an attachment area of the ferrule (). When the second housing portion () is assembled to the first housing portion (), the middle support () of the second housing portion () contacts and bends the optical fiber array () about the middle support (). The bend causes the optical ferrule () to rotate about the front support ().

Optical connector assembly

An optical ferrule includes at least one light affecting element configured to affect one or more characteristics of light from an optical waveguide as the light propagates in the optical ferrule, the light affecting element having an input surface. At least one receiving element receives and secures the optical waveguide to the ferrule so that an output surface of the waveguide is optically coupled to the input surface of the light affecting element. A waveguide stop limits movement of the waveguide toward the input surface of the light affecting element when the optical waveguide is installed in the receiving element. A space between the output surface of the optical waveguide and the input surface of the light affecting element is inaccessible to the optical waveguide when the optical waveguide is installed in the receiving element.

Optical ferrules with waveguide inaccessible space

An optical waveguide propagates an optical mode at a first wavelength along a length of the waveguide. The optical waveguide has an optical core with a substantially polygonal cross-section in a plane substantially perpendicular to the length of the waveguide. The optical core has an index of refraction n1 at the first wavelength. A first optical cladding is disposed adjacent the optical core and has an index of refraction n2 at the first wavelength, n2&#x3c;n1. A spatially modulated index region has alternating higher and lower index regions extending along a width, and arranged along the length, of the optical waveguide, and configured to extract an optical mode that would otherwise propagate along the length of the waveguide.

Optical waveguide with spatially modulated index region

A structured surface reduces optical reflectance at a predetermined wavelength in a first wavelength range extending from 600 nm to 1700 nm. The structured surface includes a plurality of parallel linear structures arranged along a first direction and extending along an orthogonal second direction. Each linear structure includes opposing nonlinear facets meeting at a peak extending along the second direction. An average spacing between the peaks of adjacent linear structures is less than the predetermined wavelength, such that for light having the predetermined wavelength and incident on the structured surface in a direction substantially perpendicular to the first and second directions, the structured surface has a reflectance Rx&#x3c;0.5% for light polarized along the first direction and a reflectance Ry&#x3c;0.5% for light polarized along the second direction, where an absolute value of Rx&#x2212;Ry is less than 0.3%. An optical ferrule may have an exit surface that includes the structured surface.

Structured surface and optical ferrule including same

A light coupling unit for use in an optical connector includes a waveguide alignment member that receives and aligns at least one optical waveguide. The light coupling unit includes a light redirecting member that has an input surface configured to receive input light from the end face of the optical wave guide. A curved reflective surface of the light redirecting member receives light from the input surface propagating along an input axis and redirects the light such that the redirected light propagates along a different redirected axis. An output surface of the light redirecting member receives the redirected light and transmits the redirected light as output light propagating along an output axis and exiting the light redirecting member. A curved intersection of the curved reflective surface and a first plane formed by the input and redirected axes has a radius of curvature. The curved reflective surface has an axis of revolution disposed in the first plane. The axis of revolution forms a first angle with the redirected axis which is non-zero. The waveguide alignment member is configured such that the end face of the optical wave guide is positioned at a location that is not a geometric focus of the curved reflective surface.

Optical connector with tilted mirror

An inspection device for an optical ferrule includes one or more reflectors. Each reflector has a mating surface and a mirror disposed at an oblique angle with respect to the mating surface. Each reflector is configured to mate with the optical ferrule when the optical ferrule is disposed within a housing of an optical connector. When the mating surface of the reflector is in mated contact with the mating surface of the optical ferrule, the mirror is positioned to provide a reflected view of at least a portion of a mating surface of the optical ferrule.

Inspection device for optical connector

A light coupling unit for use in an optical connector includes a waveguide alignment member that receives and aligns at least one optical waveguide. The light coupling unit includes a light redirecting member that has an input surface configured to receive input light from the end face of the optical waveguide. A curved reflective surface of the light redirecting member receives light from the input surface propagating along an input axis and redirects the light such that the redirected light propagates along a different redirected axis. An output surface of the light redirecting member receives the redirected light and transmits the redirected light as output light propagating along an output axis and exiting the light redirecting member. A curved intersection of the curved reflective surface and a first plane formed by the input and redirected axes has a radius of curvature. The curved reflective surface has an axis of revolution disposed in the first plane. The axis of revolution forms a first angle with the redirected axis which is non-zero. The waveguide alignment member is configured such that the end face of the optical waveguide is positioned at a location that is not a geometric focus of the curved reflective surface.

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