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 8):
The apparatus of  claim 1 , further comprising an optical coupler configured to be disposed between the optical port and an end of the optical fiber and configured to:\n optically couple light of the first set of wavelength channels through the end and out of the optical fiber; and optically couple the optical pump signal through the end and into the optical fiber.

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): 0.675527940279847
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.5013610426470826
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.6581112505165706
- Mean Citation Score: 215.828744
- Max Citation Score: 224.83704
- Similarity Product: 175.61372010296344

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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