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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Oct. 24, 2000
Filed:
Dec. 04, 1996
Applicant:
Inventor:
Neal S Bergano, Lincroft, NJ (US);
Assignee:
Tyco Submarine Systems, Ltd., Eatontown, NJ (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H04J / ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
359124 ; 359130 ; 359134 ; 359161 ; 359173 ; 359179 ; 359188 ; 385122 ; 385 24 ;
Abstract
A method and apparatus is provided for managing dispersion in a WDM optical transmission system so that transmission performance is improved. The usable optical bandwidth of the transmission system is divided into sub-bands that individually undergo dispersion compensation before being re-combined. Accordingly, in comparison to known dispersion mapping techniques, more WDM data channels reside near a wavelength corresponding to the average zero dispersion wavelength.