Professor Ben Eggleton from CUDOS, the Centre for Ultrahigh bandwidth Devices for Optical Systems, in the School of Physics at the University of Sydney, speaking to students at ISS2013: Nanoscience — Sydney, Australia, July 2013.
Ben takes us through the history of optical communications, from semaphore to the present day, then into the future as CUDOS sees it: optical communications and processing on staggering new photonic chip devices.
NOTE: tragically, our technology failed us for this video — we have no footage of Ben himself, only the audio and his slide presentation.