Retractable lighting fixture

A retractable lighting fixture, comprising:

• a lighting fixture housing;
• a flexible multilayer lighting sheet retractably retainable within said lighting fixture housing, said multilayer lighting sheet movable between a retracted position at least partially retracted within said lighting fixture housing and an extended position more protracted from said lighting fixture housing than said retracted position, said multilayer lighting sheet having a LED layer and an optical layer at least selectively over said LED layer, said LED layer including a plurality of LEDs selectively generating a light output, said optical layer intersecting and transmitting at least some of said light output;
• wherein portions of said LED layer and said optical layer are in an expanded unrolled state when in said extended position and in a compressed rolled state when in said retracted position, wherein said multilayer lighting sheet includes a second optical layer over the LED layer, said second optical layer on an opposite side of said LED layer than said optical layer and wherein said LED layer, said optical layer, and said second optical layer are all rolled separately from one another when in said retracted position.

A retractable lighting fixture, comprising:

• a lighting fixture housing;
• a flexible multilayer lighting sheet retractably retainable within said lighting fixture housing, said multilayer lighting sheet movable between a retracted position at least partially retracted within said lighting fixture housing and an extended position more protracted from said lighting fixture housing than said retracted position, said multilayer lighting sheet having a LED layer and an optical layer at least selectively over said LED layer, said LED layer including a plurality of LEDs selectively generating a light output, said optical layer intersecting and transmitting at least some of said light output;
• wherein portions of said LED layer and said optical layer are in an expanded unrolled state when in said extended position and in a compressed rolled state when in said retracted position, wherein the lighting sheet further comprises at least one mechanical spacer configured to form a spacing between the LED layer and the optical layer where the LED layer and the optical layer are in the expanded unrolled state, and wherein the LED layer is compressed toward the optical layer where the LED layer and the optical layer are in the compressed rolled state such that said spacing is reduced.