ABSTRACT
This chapter describes the design and application of dispersion compensating structures employing infinite impulse response and finite impulse response design techniques in integrated optic structures. It provides a brief designs of the micro-ring resonator (MRR), which can act as a dispersion compensator in the optical domain. The chapter presents a brief account of dispersion in single-mode optical fibers (SSMF) then dispersion in MRR. It discusses the dispersion compensating mechanism and parameters of the MRR, which can offer the dispersion and dispersion slope compensation of SSMF with length of 10–80 km, as well as the tunability and switched dispersion compensation of multiple number of 10 km length. The chapter attempts to give a brief explanation on the dispersion mechanism of lightwaves propagating in guided optical waveguides, including optical fiber, especially SSMF, and the space-integrating-based ridged waveguide. It aims to furnish the synthesis method of optical wavelet filters using planar lightwave circuits or Si-on-insulator photonics two-port lattice-form architectures.
