PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 16032947
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-07
Publication Date: 2018-11
Patent Classification: ["385", "003000"]

Abstract:
A driver configuration for driving a Mach-Zehnder modulator (MZM) includes a first driver supplied by a first voltage and a second voltage and configured to provide a first two complimentary outputs respectively to a first N-electrode of a first branch of the MZM and a second N-electrode of a second branch of the MZM. Additionally, the driver configuration includes a second driver supplied by a third voltage and a fourth voltage and configured to provide a second two complimentary outputs respectively to a first P-electrode of the first branch and a second P-electrode of the second branch. The driver configuration sets a difference between the third voltage and the fourth voltage equal to a difference between the first voltage and the second voltage to provide a same peak-to-peak differential swing for modulating light wave through each transmission line and output a modulated light with twice of the peak-to-peak differential swing.

Claim (Index 1):
A method for driving a Mach-Zehnder modulator (MZM), the method comprising:\n supplying a first voltage and a second voltage to a first driver; generating a first two complimentary outputs respectively to a first N-electrode of a first branch of the MZM and a second N-electrode of a second branch of the MZM to yield a first peak-to-peak differential voltage; supplying a third voltage and a fourth voltage to a second driver; generating a second two complimentary outputs respectively to a first P-electrode of the first branch and a second P-electrode of the second branch to yield a second peak-to-peak differential voltage, a difference between the third voltage and the fourth voltage being equal to a difference between the first voltage and the second voltage, and an offset being given to the third voltage relative to the first voltage; and setting both the first N-electrode and the second N-electrode terminated at the first voltage and both the first P-electrode and the second P-electrode terminated at the third voltage, yet making the first peak-to-peak differential voltage to be equal to the second peak-to-peak differential voltage.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 3.0
- Percentile: 95.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.83636
- Patent Class: 385.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['15488950', '15909672', '15247091', '14472193', '15832296']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.8030778962219184
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.5853909447845093
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.7813092010781775
- Mean Citation Score: 338.691668
- Max Citation Score: 474.0207
- Similarity Product: 454.9495871088982

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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