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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Nov. 14, 2000
Filed:
Sep. 23, 1998
Laura Ellen Adams, Basking Ridge, NJ (US);
Benjamin John Eggleton, Berkeley Heights, NJ (US);
Rolando Patricio Espindola, Chatham, NJ (US);
Sungho Jin, Millington, NJ (US);
Hareesh Mavoori, Berkeley Heights, NJ (US);
John A Rogers, New Providence, NJ (US);
Thomas Andrew Strasser, Warren, NJ (US);
Lucent Technologies Inc., Murray Hill, NJ (US);
Abstract
A tunable chromatic dispersion compensator for optical communication systems is disclosed. An optical grating, such as a fiber Bragg grating, nonchirped, linearly chirped or non-linearly chirped, is strained to alter the dispersion compensator characteristics, preferably with a gradient-generating body bonded onto the length of the fiber grating. The body may be latchably strained so that the grating characteristics may be changed or tuned while avoiding use of a continuous power supply. Various optical networking applications using such dispersion compensating devices are also disclosed.