Patent ID: 6889011

Claim:
An integrated system for performing dispersion compensation on at least one wavelength channel, the system comprising: a tunable integrated dispersion compensation module configured to perform chromatic dispersion compensation and polarization mode dispersion compensation on the at least one wavelength channel; the tunable integrated dispersion compensation module further comprising: a chromatic dispersion compensation portion configured to perform chromatic dispersion compensation on the at least one wavelength channel; and a polarization mode dispersion compensation portion configured to perform polarization mode dispersion compensation on the at least one wavelength channel, wherein the polarization mode dispersion compensation portion includes a polarization controller and a tunable differential delay unit; and a feedback element coupled to the chromatic dispersion compensation portion, the polarization controller and the tunable differential delay unit, the feedback element being configured to provide a feedback control signal to thereby adjust the tunable integrated dispersion compensation module until a predetermined characteristic of the at least one wavelength channel is optimized.