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Although visible and infrared light appear to behave very differently from more conventional radio waves, they are still part of the electromagnetic spectrum, and can therefore be utilized for various communication purposes, some of which are very ubiquitous indeed.
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Launiainen, P. (2018). Let There Be Light. In: A Brief History of Everything Wireless. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-78910-1_13
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