PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 16037837
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-07
Publication Date: 2020-01
Patent Classification: ["372", "006000"]

Abstract:
The present disclosure relates to an optical waveguide system. The system may include a first waveguide having a core-guide and a material portion surrounding and encasing the core-guide. The core-guide enables a core-guide mode for an optical signal travelling through the core-guide. A second waveguide forms a lossy waveguide on an outer surface of the first waveguide. The construction of the second waveguide is such as to achieve a desired coupling between the core-guide mode and the lossy waveguide to control an energy level of the optical signal travelling through the core-guide.

Claim (Index 19):
A method for forming an optical waveguide, including:\n providing a first waveguide having a core-guide and a cladding material portion surrounding and encasing the core-guide, the core-guide enabling a core-guide mode for an optical signal travelling through the core-guide; disposing a second waveguide, formed from metal, on an outer surface of the first waveguide, the second waveguide forming a plasmonic device which implements a plasmonic mode waveguide; and using the second waveguide to achieve a desired coupling between the core-guide mode and the plasmonic mode waveguide to control an energy level of the optical signal travelling through the core-guide; and using an optical pump source to inject optical energy into the core-guide, using the plasmonic coupling between the plasmonic device and the core-guide, from a location along a length of the first waveguide and in a direction non-parallel to a longitudinal axis of the optical fiber.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 11.0
- Percentile: 95.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.06383
- Patent Class: 372.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: none
- Component Type: 0
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['15902605', '11114492', '13357837', '15686471', '15307695']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.7859869863871064
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.4825759540382445
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.7556458831522203
- Mean Citation Score: 174.928606
- Max Citation Score: 184.57845
- Similarity Product: 147.44621509078146

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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