
Last Mile by Laser
Short-range infrared lasers could beam advanced broadband multimedia services directly into homes and offices
Anthony Acampora is professor of electrical and computer engineering at the University of California, San Diego, where he works on leading-edge telecommunications networking technology. He is also chief scientist and co-founder of AirFiber, a San Diego¿based company that is developing free-space optical technology. Holder of 30 patents, Acampora has performed research at Columbia University and AT&T Bell Laboratories. He received his doctorate in electrical engineering from the Polytechnic Institute of Brooklyn.
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