PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 16082636
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-09
Publication Date: 2019-04
Patent Classification: ["398", "082000"]

Abstract:
A Raman amplifier having an optical pump configured to generate pump bands, each of which is spectrally aligned with a respective wavelength channel of a frequency grid in a manner that enables the pump bands to coexist in an optical fiber with data-carrying signals of other wavelength channels of the frequency grid without causing unworkable levels of inter-channel interference. In an example embodiment, the optical pump comprises a laser whose single-mode output is modulated to sufficiently suppresses stimulated Brillouin scattering in the optical fiber while still keeping the optical power of each of the resulting pump bands spectrally compact, e.g., substantially contained within the slot width of the respective wavelength channel. In some embodiments, at least some pump bands can be spectrally interleaved with some of the data-carrying signals to increase the data-throughput capacity of the corresponding optical transport system.

Claim (Index 20):
An optical pumping method comprising:\n generating an optical pump signal having one or more pump bands, each of the one or more pump bands being spectrally aligned with a respective wavelength channel of a first set of wavelength channels of a frequency grid; and transmitting the optical pump signal through an optical fiber configured to transmit light of a second set of wavelength channels of the frequency grid in a manner that causes the optical pump signal to induce optical amplification of light of at least some of the second set of optical channels due to Raman scattering of the optical pump signal.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 50.0
- Percentile: 97.0
- Lexical Diversity: 1.80488
- Patent Class: 398.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['10414890', '11174584', '15581578', '09960405', '14353049']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.6763432263681862
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.4974605764454273
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.6584549613759104
- Mean Citation Score: 215.828744
- Max Citation Score: 224.83704
- Similarity Product: 183.2887834949684

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

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