PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 16031572
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-07
Publication Date: 2019-01
Patent Classification: ["385", "002000"]

Abstract:
The object of the invention is a phase modulator including a modulation guide intended to guide die propagation of a light flow, said guide comprising a PN junction extending mainly along the main axis of propagation according to an oscillating continuous function. Advantageously, the oscillating continuous function is defined in such a way that the PN junction covers at least 50% of the light flow between the input and the output of the modulation guide. According to one possibility, the continuous function is sinusoidal. The object of the invention is also a switch and an intensity modulator each comprising a phase modulator.

Claim (Index 1):
A phase modulator for a light flow comprising:\n an input guide and at least one multimode modulation guide having an input optically coupled with an output of the input guide, an output and a main axis (y) of propagation along which a light flow is intended to pass through the at least one multimode modulation guide, the at least one multimode modulation guide further comprising: at least one P-doped zone and one N-doped zone in such a way as to define a PN junction generating a space charge region, a device configured to vary a voltage V applied between the at least one N-doped and P-doped zones in such a way as to vary a phase of the light flow intended to propagate in the at least one multimode modulation guide, wherein the input guide is configured to excite various propagation modes in the at least one multimode modulation guide and in that the PN junction extends mainly along the main axis (y) of propagation, following an oscillating continuous function fanning oscillations each defining a crest and in which the crests of two successive oscillations are separated by a distance P jPN .

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 3.0
- Percentile: 95.0
- Lexical Diversity: 1.92982
- Patent Class: 385.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: True
- Related Applications: ['16018663', '14894823', '11867866', '15744208', '15548687']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.7687861066519126
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.4734847079963847
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.7392559667863599
- Mean Citation Score: 178.640752
- Max Citation Score: 190.18275
- Similarity Product: 156.24167050212623

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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