PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 16075573
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-08
Publication Date: 2019-02
Patent Classification: ["385", "127000"]

Abstract:
The present disclosure relates more to mode mixing optical fibers useful, for example in providing optical fiber laser outputs having a desired beam product parameter and beam profile. In one aspect, the disclosure provides a mode mixing optical fiber that includes a core having a refractive index profile; and a cladding disposed about the core. The core of the mode mixing optical fiber supports at least two (e.g., at least five) guided modes at the wavelength. The mode mixing optical fiber is configured to substantially distribute optical radiation having the wavelength propagating therein (e.g., input at its input end or generated or amplified within the core) among a plurality of the guided modes (e.g., to distribute a substantial fraction of the optical radiation having the wavelength propagating therein from its lower-order guided modes to its higher-order guided modes).

Claim (Index 59):
The method according to  claim 58 , wherein the free space propagating beam has a divergence in the range of about 40 mrad, 60 mrad or 80 mrad up to the numerical aperture of the optical fiber, e.g., in the range of about 40 mrad to about 600 mrad, or about 40 mrad to about 300 mrad, or about 40 mrad to about 160 mrad, or about 40 mrad to about 140 mrad, or about 40 mrad to about 120 mrad, or about 40 mrad to about 100 mrad, or about 40 mrad to about 80 mrad, or about 60 mrad to about 600 mrad, or about 60 mrad to about 300 mrad, or about 60 mrad to about 160 mrad, or about 60 mrad to about 140 mrad, or about 60 mrad to about 120 mrad, or about 60 mrad to about 100 mrad, or about 80 mrad to about 600 mrad, or about 80 mrad to about 300 mrad, or about 80 mrad to about 160 mrad, or about 80 mrad to about 140 mrad, or about 80 mrad to about 120 mrad, or about 80 mrad to about 100 mrad, or about 100 mrad to about 200 mrad, or about 100 mrad to about 400 mrad, or about 100 mrad to about 600 mrad, or about 200 mrad to about 600 mrad.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 59.0
- Percentile: 96.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.05333
- Patent Class: 385.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: none
- Component Type: 0
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['13418255', '13418262', '12641262', '15168981', '15468520']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.8413285842826655
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.500961271945409
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.8072918530489399
- Mean Citation Score: 253.798076
- Max Citation Score: 266.47357
- Similarity Product: 198.2517346932668

Labels:
- Claim Label 101: 1
- Claim Label 102: 1
- Claim Label 103: 1
- Claim Label 112: 1
- Combined Label: 1
- Label 101 Adjusted: 1

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