PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 15867540
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-01
Publication Date: 2018-07
Patent Classification: ["372", "050120"]

Abstract:
A number of beams that can be coupled into an optical fiber can be increased using emitted beams having greater divergence, thus providing increased beam power. Alternatively, with a fixed number of emitters, total optical power can be maintained with fewer beams in an output beam with a smaller numerical aperture.

Claim (Index 1):
An apparatus, comprising:\n a set of laser diodes with a predetermined spacing with respect to a stacking axis, each laser diode having an emission region defining a fast axis and a slow axis that produces an emitted beam having a fast axis beam full width of less than 1.62 \u03bcm or a fast axis full width beam divergence of at least 48 degrees, wherein fast axes of each of the laser diodes are mutually parallel and are parallel to the stacking axis and slow axes of each of the laser diodes are mutually parallel and orthogonal to the stacking axis; fast axis collimators (FACs) associated with each of the laser diodes, each of the fast axis collimators having common focal length, wherein emission regions of each of the laser diodes are coupled to a respective fast axis collimator so as to produce respective beams that are collimated along the fast axes; an afocal telescope situated to receive the fast axis collimated beams from the fast axis collimators and produce a fast axis beam spacing based on the predetermined spacing and a magnification M associated with the afocal telescope; an objective lens situated to receive the fast axis collimated beams from the afocal telescope; and an optical fiber having a core situated to receive the fast axis collimated beams from the objective lens.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 4.0
- Percentile: 86.0
- Lexical Diversity: 1.51351
- Patent Class: 372.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['14641093', '14938199', '15435117', '14984602', '13313490']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.8271620039589677
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.5075067305356041
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.7951964766166313
- Mean Citation Score: 273.828842
- Max Citation Score: 280.6866
- Similarity Product: 214.1374787170172

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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