I imagine he was referring to the sub-carrier.
It's not easy to directly modulate, discriminate and demodulate in the optical frequencies directly, so information is usually embedded in a sub-carrier at a frequency which modern electronics can actually work at.
Working directly with optical frequencies requires a purely optical system. While some such systems do exist and are extremely powerful and interesting, they are not very flexible and only suited to certain simple but massively parallel tasks.
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