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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jul. 18, 2017
Filed:
Mar. 13, 2015
Cree, Inc., Durham, NC (US);
Kurt S. Wilcox, Libertyville, IL (US);
Nicholas W. Medendorp, Jr., Raleigh, NC (US);
Zongjie Yuan, Libertyville, IL (US);
Andrew Dan Bendtsen, Racine, WI (US);
Nathan Snell, Raleigh, NC (US);
Jeremy Sorenson, Oak Creek, WI (US);
Brian Kinnune, Racine, WI (US);
Craig D. Raleigh, Burlington, WI (US);
Cree, Inc., Durham, NC (US);
Abstract
An optical waveguide having orthogonal x- and y-dimensions includes at least one coupling feature for directing light into the waveguide, at least one light redirection feature extending in the x- and y-dimensions for redirecting light in the waveguide, at least one first light extraction feature extending in the x-dimension for extracting light out of the waveguide, and at least one second light extraction feature extending in the y-dimension for extracting light out of the waveguide.