Patent 7590356 was granted and assigned to Hitachi on September, 2009 by the United States Patent and Trademark Office.
The present invention provides: (1) a compensator that compensates a wide range of amount of dispersion of light in a wide bandwidth band; and (2) a variable dispersion slope compensator applicable to the case where a transmission path suitable for a wavelength division multiplexing transmission system produces a wavelength dispersion slope.