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 1):
A system for controlling the energy flux of a light beam to switch the light beam from one waveguide to another, wherein the light beam is a carrier wave characterized by a Poynting vector P, the system comprising:\n a first optical waveguide for receiving the carrier wave for transit therethrough; a second optical waveguide, wherein the second optical waveguide is juxtaposed with the first optical waveguide along a length L to establish a multimode optical waveguide defining an axis and having an interference region along the axis between the first optical waveguide and the second optical waveguide; a modulator having an index of refraction, n+ik, wherein ik is a loss/gain component and the modulator is positioned in the interference region amid the multimode optical waveguide for arrival of the Poynting vector P at the modulator with an incidence angle \u03b8 to create a distance dependent, propagation interference distance \u03bb c  in the carrier wave over the length L as the carrier wave passes back and forth through the interference region along a zig-zag path in the multimode optical waveguide; and a voltage source connected 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, with a consequent change in the propagation interference distance of the carrier wave by an increment \u00b1\u0394\u03bb c , each time the carrier wave passes through the modulator, wherein \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: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['15870614', '15683112', '10909188', '14778707', '15982483']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.8167227117453841
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.5023009800652244
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.7852805385773682
- Mean Citation Score: 241.71943
- Max Citation Score: 300.1578
- Similarity Product: 265.0182847958207

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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