PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 15886739
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-02
Publication Date: 2018-06
Patent Classification: ["356", "479000"]

Abstract:
This disclosure relates to an OCT apparatus configured to generate to electromagnetic (e.g., optical) signals having two different polarization states. Two or more silicon optical amplifiers (SOAs) can be configured to maintain a respective polarization state in an optical input signal provided from a light source (e.g., a broadband light source). The different polarization states can be combined by an optical combiner (e.g., a polarization maintaining fiber coupler) and provided to drive a reference arm and a sample arm implemented in an OCT system.

Claim (Index 1):
An optical coherence tomography (OCT) apparatus, comprising:\n a light source configured to provide broadband light; a first polarization sensitive semiconductor optical amplifier (PS-SOA) to receive a portion of the broadband light and to output a first polarized optical signal having a first polarization state; and a second PS-SOA to receive another portion of the broadband light and to output a second polarized optical signal having a second polarization state, the first and second polarization states being different.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 7.0
- Percentile: 88.0
- Lexical Diversity: 1.75
- Patent Class: 356.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['13444410', '12980144', '15117145', '12572925', '14159748']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.6633169528915945
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.4983545843620238
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.6468207160386376
- Mean Citation Score: 242.873862
- Max Citation Score: 252.75009
- Similarity Product: 198.4003456389713

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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