PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 15955102
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-04
Publication Date: 2018-10
Patent Classification: ["385", "003000"]

Abstract:
Embodiments of an optical modulator device are described. An example optical modulator includes a ridge laser configured to emit light, a ridge waveguide configured to transition between a transparent state and an absorbing state, and a waveguide tap formed between the ridge laser and the ridge waveguide. The waveguide tap is configured to optically couple a fraction of light generated in the ridge laser to the ridge waveguide. In the transparent state of the ridge waveguide, the ridge waveguide is configured to output the fraction of light for interference with light emitted from the ridge laser. In the absorbing state of the ridge waveguide, the ridge waveguide is configured to absorb the fraction of light. Depending upon whether the fraction of light is output from the ridge waveguide for interference, the output power of the laser seen at the far-field of the optical modulator can be modulated for data communications.

Claim (Index 5):
The optical modulator device of  claim 1 , wherein:\n in the transparent state of the ridge waveguide, the ridge waveguide is configured to output the fraction of light from the second output facet for interference with the light emitted from the first output facet of the ridge laser for a first state of optical modulation; and in the absorbing state of the ridge waveguide, the ridge waveguide is configured to absorb the fraction of light optically coupled from the ridge laser to the ridge waveguide for a second state of optical modulation.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 7.0
- Percentile: 91.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.82456
- Patent Class: 385.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: none
- Component Type: 0
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['12200127', '15384270', '10657807', '12250651', '13278847']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.8135055416753514
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.4560708920344205
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.7777620767112583
- Mean Citation Score: 157.10916999999995
- Max Citation Score: 167.6385
- Similarity Product: 142.8920705974102

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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