All pass filters (APFs) are used in dispersion compensation which is the foremost requirement in an optical fiber link. All pass filters can correct any order of dispersion by the careful design of multistage all pass filters starting from very simple components with the use of N port devices. Multiple channels, as in wavelength division multiplexed (WDM) system, can be compensated with a single device since these filters are periodic in phase response. In this paper we have designed and implemented these filters to compensate dispersion an some results has shown.

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@article{sandeep02011002,
title = "DISPERSION COMPENSATION IN OPTICAL COMMUNICATION LINK USING APF’S ",
journal = "International Journal of Science and Engineering Applications (IJSEA)",
volume = "2",
number = "1",
pages = "06 - 09",
year = "2013",
author = "Sandeep Singh, Vaibhav Bhushan Tyagi, Anuj Bhardwaj, Neeraj Gupta ",
}