Patent ID: 11909436
Assignee: THE BOARD OF REGENTS FOR THE OKLAHOMA AGRICULTURAL AND MECHANICAL COLLEGES
Field: Telecommunications (Electrical engineering)
Classification: CPC H | IPC H

Claim 24:
25. A method of compensating dispersion of an electromagnetic signal, comprising the steps of:
receiving an incident electromagnetic signal by a dynamic dispersion compensator, wherein the dynamic dispersion compensator includes: a cohort of a plurality of stratified structures arranged relative to each other to communicate the incident electromagnetic signal, wherein the cohort defines a group delay dispersion of the cohort and the cohort is configured to introduce a group delay dispersion to the incident electromagnetic signal, wherein each stratified structure in the cohort includes a front portion and a back portion, and each stratified structure includes a plurality of adjacent layers, and each layer has a refractive index different from an immediately adjacent layer, and each stratified structure includes a backing layer at its back portion, wherein each stratified structure in the cohort defines a group delay dispersion for itself, and wherein the group delay dispersion of the cohort is dynamically tunable; and
reflecting, by the dynamic dispersion compensator, a modified electromagnetic signal, wherein information carried by the modified electromagnetic signal corresponds to information carried by an initial electromagnetic signal absent experiencing dispersive effects.