PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 15880674
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-01
Publication Date: 2018-08
Patent Classification: ["398", "044000"]

Abstract:
A mode division multiplexing system that includes a transmitter system, a receiver system and an optical link that optically connects the transmitter and receiver systems. The optical link includes a rectangular-core optical fiber having a rectangular core with a short dimension and a long dimension. The rectangular-core optical fiber supports only a single mode in the short dimension and multiple modes in the long dimension. A method of transmitting optical signals includes converting single mode optical signals to respective multimode optical signals each having a select spatial mode as defined by the rectangular-core optical fiber. The multimode optical signals are multiplexed and transmitted from the transmitter system to the receiver system over the rectangular-core optical fiber where the multimode optical signals are demultiplexed and converted back to single mode optical signals, which are then detected by respective receivers. A rectangular-core optical fiber is also disclosed.

Claim (Index 1):
A mode division multiplexing system, comprising:\n a transmitter system having first mode conditioners adapted to convert first single mode optical signals to respective multimode optical signals having respective spatial modes, and a mode multiplexer optically connected to the first mode conditioners and adapted to multiplex the multimode optical signals; a receiver system having a mode demultiplexer adapted to demultiplex the multiplexed multimode optical signals and having second mode conditioners optically coupled to the mode demultiplexer, the second mode conditioners adapted to convert the multimode optical signals into respective second single mode optical signals; and an optical link that optically connects the transmitter system and receiver system, wherein the optical link comprises at least one rectangular-core optical fiber having a rectangular core with a short dimension and a long dimension, wherein the rectangular-core optical fiber supports the spatial modes, and wherein the spatial modes are defined by only a single spatial mode in the short dimension and N spatial modes in the long dimension, wherein N\u22652.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 17.0
- Percentile: 86.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.31818
- Patent Class: 398.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['13331610', '13420037', '11036981', '15070283', '13954165']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.6557389504944291
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.527587853358581
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.6429238407808443
- Mean Citation Score: 271.62545
- Max Citation Score: 290.1133700000001
- Similarity Product: 234.43957245462903

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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