PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 16192032
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-11
Publication Date: 2019-03
Patent Classification: ["398", "034000"]

Abstract:
Consistent with the present disclosure, a photonic integrated circuit (PIC) is provided that has 2 N channels (N being an integer). The PIC is optically coupled to N optical fibers, such that each of N polarization multiplexed optical signals are transmitted over a respective one of the N optical fibers. In another example, each of the N optical fibers supply a respective one of N polarization multiplexed optical signals to the PIC for coherent detection and processing. A multiplexer and demultiplexer may be omitted from the PIC, such that the optical signals are not combined on the PIC. As a result, the transmitted and received optical signals incur less loss and amplified spontaneous emission (ASE) noise. In addition, optical taps may be more readily employed on the PIC to measure outputs of the lasers, such as widely tunable lasers (WTLs), without crossing waveguides.

Claim (Index 26):
An optical device in accordance with  claim 1 , wherein the at least one optical elements is provided in a planar lightwave circuit (PLC).

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 44.0
- Percentile: 98.0
- Lexical Diversity: 1.9186
- Patent Class: 398.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: none
- Component Type: 0
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['10317935', '11869420', '13630831', '10267331', '11556278']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.7230901523105071
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.5180076804677093
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.7025819051262273
- Mean Citation Score: 255.437678
- Max Citation Score: 269.56015
- Similarity Product: 208.2111898705721

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

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