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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
May. 24, 2011
Filed:
Nov. 12, 2007
Christopher Lin, El Cerrito, CA (US);
Mark Summa, Painted Post, NY (US);
Martin Williams, Corning, NY (US);
Douglas Butler, Painted Post, NY (US);
Peter Wigley, Corning, NY (US);
Christopher Lin, El Cerrito, CA (US);
Mark Summa, Painted Post, NY (US);
Martin Williams, Corning, NY (US);
Douglas Butler, Painted Post, NY (US);
Peter Wigley, Corning, NY (US);
Oclaro (North America), Inc., San Jose, CA (US);
Abstract
One embodiment sets forth a technique for measuring chromatic dispersion using reference signals within the operational range of amplifiers used to refresh data signals. One red/blue laser pair in the transmission node is used for measuring dispersion and chromatic dispersion compensation is added at each line node in the system. Since reference and data signals propagate through each amplifier, the reference signals used to measure chromatic dispersion receive the same dispersion compensation (and will have the same residual dispersion) as the data signals. Therefore, any residual dispersion in the data signals will manifest itself in downstream dispersion measurements and, thus, can be corrected. The tunable dispersion compensator in each line node may be set to compensate for the measured dispersion, thereby compensating for both the chromatic dispersion of the link connecting the current node to the prior node and any uncorrected residual dispersion from prior nodes.