PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 15916742
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-03
Publication Date: 2018-09
Patent Classification: ["372", "006000"]

Abstract:
An arrangement for reducing the number of amplifier pumps required to energize gain sections in fiber lasers which incorporate nonlinear amplified loop mirrors.

Claim (Index 10):
A method of operating a laser apparatus comprising a first component loop comprising at least a first gain component; a second loop comprising a fiber nonlinear amplified loop mirror (NALM), the NALM comprising a second gain component and coupled to the first component loop by a bidirectional optical coupling component; a first pump source component operatively coupled to the first gain component in the first loop; a third gain component; and a second pump source component coupled to the third gain component then the second gain component and operative to sequentially pump both the third and second gain components;\n wherein the method comprises:\n energizing the first pump source to supply pump light to the first gain component; and \n energizing the second pump component to supply pump light to the second and third gain components, the third gain component pumped in excess of saturation such that surplus pump light is provided to the second gain component.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 20.0
- Percentile: 90.0
- Lexical Diversity: 1.0
- Patent Class: 372.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: True
- Related Applications: ['14407655', '15551709', '12498072', '14616531', '14012508']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.7975676067442841
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.4893809015695887
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.7667489362268145
- Mean Citation Score: 199.059448
- Max Citation Score: 214.41185
- Similarity Product: 160.49370856657626

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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