PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 15924090
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-03
Publication Date: 2018-07
Patent Classification: ["385", "001000"]

Abstract:
Methods, apparatus, and systems for active saturable absorbance of an optical beam. An active saturable absorber may comprise an optical input to receive an optical beam, and one or more lengths of fiber between the optical input and an optical output. At least one of the lengths of fiber comprises a confinement region that is optically coupled to the output. The active saturable absorber may further comprise an optical detector to sense a characteristic of the optical beam, such as power. The active saturable absorber may further comprise a perturbation device to modulate, through action upon the one or more lengths of fiber, a transmittance of the beam through a fiber confinement region from a lower transmittance level to a higher transmittance level based on an indication of the characteristic sensed while the transmittance level is low.

Claim (Index 16):
A laser, comprising:\n an optical cavity comprising an optical gain medium and an optical fiber absorber; a means to energize the optical gain medium; an output coupler to couple at least a portion of an optical beam out of the cavity, wherein the optical fiber absorber further comprises:\n one or more lengths of fiber, wherein at least one of the lengths of fiber comprises a confinement region that is optically coupled to the optical gain medium; \n an optical detector to sense a characteristic of the optical beam; \n a controller coupled to the detector, wherein the controller is to generate a control signal based on an output of the detector; and \n a perturbation device to temporally vary optical loss, in response to the control signal, within the cavity through action upon the one or more lengths of fiber that modulates a transmittance of the optical beam through the confinement region.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 1.0
- Percentile: 90.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.3125
- Patent Class: 385.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['15924096', '15885633', '15885563', '15607399', '15904861']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.7818466629676061
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.5784087365784386
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.7615028703286894
- Mean Citation Score: 290.788432
- Max Citation Score: 405.13092
- Similarity Product: 301.09663378583195

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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