If you burn infected files onto an optical disc then those files remain infected and would remain on the optical disc permanently.

A compact disc is a type of optical disc.

"Optical disc" is an umbrella term for any type of storage media which uses optical technology (as opposed to magnetic) for data storage. This includes but is not limited to DVDs, CDs, H-DVD, blu-ray, laser discs CDRW's, and DVDRW's

CD and DVD disks are used by optical disc drives.

types of optical disc drive are:

cd,dvd,blueray,cdr,cdrw,dvdrw,mp3,mp4

Daemon Tools Lite is an emulator of disk images. Daemon Tools Lite is also an optical disc authoring program for Microsoft Windows. One can find further information, and download Daemon Tools Lite, by visiting the CNET website.