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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Apr. 01, 2003
Filed:
Jun. 29, 1998
Applicant:
Inventor:
Harshad P. Sardesai, Elkridge, MD (US);
Assignee:
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H04B 1/012 ; H04J 1/402 ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
H04B 1/012 ; H04J 1/402 ;
Abstract
A dispersion compensating element having a substantially uniform spectral nonlinearity is described. The dispersion compensating unit is thus suitable for incorporation into high speed wavelength division multiplexed (WDM) optical communication systems. Several examples of dispersion compensating elements are discussed, each of which comprising at least one segment of dispersion compensating fiber.