US Patent Issued to CIENA on March 18 for "Per-span optical fiber nonlinearity compensation using integrated photonic computing" (Canadian Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,255,686, issued on March 18, was assigned to CIENA Corp. (Hanover, Md.).

"Per-span optical fiber nonlinearity compensation using integrated photonic computing" was invented by Yinqing Pei (Kanata, Canada), David Boertjes (Nepean, Canada) and Antoine Bois (Quebec, Canada).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for per-span optical fiber nonlinearity compensation comprises determining values of fiber parameters characterizing one or more target optical fibers in one or more respective spans of a link, and applying selected weight values to one or more photonic computing chips (PCCs), each PCC integrated in a different respective span of t...