PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 16018663
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-06
Publication Date: 2019-02
Patent Classification: ["385", "002000"]

Abstract:
A system and method for controlling the energy flux of a light beam (carrier wave) relies on the manipulation of a light beam's Poynting vector to switch the light beam from one optical waveguide to another. A modulator positioned between the two waveguides has an index of refraction n+ik wherein ik is a loss/gain component. It is the manipulation of this loss/gain component ik by an external stimulus which causes anisotropic changes in orthogonal components of the light beam's Poynting vector. This, in turn, causes changes in the propagation distance of the light beam (carrier wave) over a length L along the waveguides that switch the light beam from one waveguide to the other.

Claim (Index 10):
A method for manufacturing a multimode optical waveguide to control the energy flux of a light beam to switch the light beam from one vvaveguide to another, wherein the light beam is a carrier wave characterized by a Poynting vector P, and the method comprises the steps of:\n juxtaposing a first optical waveguide with a second optical waveguide along a length L to define an axis, and to create an interference region for the multimode optical waveguide along the axis between the first optical waveguide and the second optical waveguide; positioning a modulator in the interference region, wherein the modulator has an index of refraction, n+ik, and wherein ik is a loss/gain component; connecting a voltage source to the modulator for selectively controlling an interaction between the modulator and the carrier wave to change the direction of the Poynting vector P of the carrier wave by an increment \u00b1\u0394\u03b8 in its incidence angle \u03b8 with the modulator, to cause a consequent change in the distance dependent, propagation interference distance \u03bb c  of the carrier wave by an increment \u00b1\u0394\u03bb c , each time the carrier wave passes through the modulator along a zig-zag path in the multimode optical waveguide, with \u222b\u0394\u03bb c =\u00b1\u03bb c  at the length L where the energy of the carrier wave is essentially shifted from the first waveguide to the second waveguide.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 4.0
- Percentile: 94.0
- Lexical Diversity: 1.82609
- Patent Class: 385.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: none
- Component Type: 0
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['15870614', '15683112', '10909188', '14778707', '15982483']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.8337090583912692
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.5063468001214353
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.8009728325642859
- Mean Citation Score: 241.71943
- Max Citation Score: 300.1578
- Similarity Product: 255.6049872056008

Labels:
- Claim Label 101: 1
- Claim Label 102: 0
- Claim Label 103: 1
- Claim Label 112: 1
- Combined Label: 0
- Label 101 Adjusted: 1

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