writing about kao he gets the nobel prize. things are popping up in a funny way sometimes. however, i try to find out who was m.e. collier, who worked as kao for itt and with him in the 1970s. although in a british lab.

also of interest in regard to the stockholm decision: charles kuen kao mentioned in his talk at the telecom world forum 1975, that the original proposal for wideband transmission was written by himself and señor hockham:

k.c. kao and g.a. hockham, "dielectric fibre surface waveguide for optical frequencies", proc. iee vol.133, 1966, p1151-1158.

btw. ¿when did he change his name from k.c.kao to c.k. kao?

We present experiments on information encoding using nanoscale writing with degenerate two-dimensional electrons. We show “pages” (letters encoded at specific energies) materialized by precisely engineering electron scattering environments with the tip of a scanning tunneling microscope. We then demonstrate that multiple pages can be encoded into the same region of space, using energy as a third holographic dimension. | electronic nanoholography

an article

...could lead to rewriteable holographic memory devices. | ns

seems my favorite material is not in use anymore for that purpose. they do it with a thin layer of liquid crystal polymer, as do the hungarian since years.