This seems to mean two different things - cable television and optical communications.
"There is going to be a lot more optical communications in computing than people have thought."
Lasers based on such structures are the basis of today's optical communications.
Free-space optical communication, a technology that uses light to transmit data.
Recent research in the field of production automation focuses on optical communication.
This article provides a basic introduction to different forms of optical communication.
Free-space optical communications are also used every day in a various applications.
Thanks to his effort, the research and application of optical communication in China has made a great progress in the recent 30 years.
Meanwhile, Lucent's new breed of optical and data communications products are taking longer than expected to come to the market in force.
He was BT professor of optical communications from 1980 to 1995.