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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Dec. 04, 2012
Filed:
Apr. 09, 2010
Lan Sheng, Painted Post, NY (US);
Aaron Zilkie, Painted Post, NY (US);
Mark Summa, Painted Post, NY (US);
Timothy Kent Zahnley, Spencer, NY (US);
Peter G. Wigley, Corning, NY (US);
Lan Sheng, Painted Post, NY (US);
Aaron Zilkie, Painted Post, NY (US);
Mark Summa, Painted Post, NY (US);
Timothy Kent Zahnley, Spencer, NY (US);
Peter G. Wigley, Corning, NY (US);
Oclaro (North America), Inc., San Jose, CA (US);
Abstract
A tunable dispersion compensator (TDC) is tuned from a first dispersion setpoint to a second dispersion setpoint while maintaining continuity of the dispersion. The dispersion tuning follows a pre-determined trajectory in the time domain, so that continuity of the optical dispersion across the channel optical bandwidth is maintained while minimizing all other TDC-induced optical impairments during a tuning period.