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 16):
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 means for injecting the carrier wave into a multimode optical waveguide for transit therethrough, wherein the multimode optical waveguide defines an axis and has an interference region along an axial length L; a means positioned in the interference region of the multimode optical waveguide having an index of refraction, n+ik, wherein ik is a loss/gain component for influencing the Poynting vector P to create a distance dependent, propagation interference distance \u03bb c  in the carrier wave over the length L; and a means for selectively controlling the index of refraction n+ik of the means in the interference region 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 interference region, wherein \u222b\u0394\u03bb c =\u00b1\u0394 c  at the length L to shift the energy of the carrier wave from one waveguide to the other 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): 0.8162847293616009
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.5072290532459359
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.7853791617500344
- Mean Citation Score: 241.71943
- Max Citation Score: 300.1578
- Similarity Product: 238.4809520255328

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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