Patent ID: 11863238
Assignee: nan
Field: Optics (Instruments)
Classification: CPC H  G | IPC G  H

Claim 6:
7. The integrated receiver chip of claim 1, wherein the first and the second dispersion compensators each comprises:
a tunable dispersion compensator being adapted to induce a dispersion tunable in a range between 0 and D, where D is a value in picoseconds per nanometer;
a plurality of cascaded and optically connected Mach-Zehnder Interferometer (MZI) switches, a first MZI switch of the plurality of MZI switches being optically connected to the tunable dispersion compensator; and
a plurality of fixed dispersion compensators, each fixed dispersion compensator of the plurality of fixed dispersion compensators being adapted to induce a fixed dispersion, and being optically connected to a branch of each MZI switch of the plurality of MZI switches;
wherein each MZI switch is adapted to be controllable for directing a path of propagation of an optical signal, such that the optical signal can selectively incur dispersion.