Optical communication
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optical-communication-304-12496405
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Optical communication
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Optical communication, also known as optical telecommunication, is communication at a distance using light to carry information. It can be performed visually or by using electronic devices. The earliest basic forms of optical communication date back several millennia, while the earliest electrical device created to do so was the photophone, invented in 1880. An optical communication system uses a transmitter, which encodes a message into an optical signal, a channel, which carries the signal to
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Use of light to convey information
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Optical_communication
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2024-02-19T17:36:27Z
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