Watch Brian Lawrence, manager of GE’s Integrated Polymer Systems Lab, in Niskayuna, NY, discuss the history of recording media. He also explains how holographic storage discs are made and how data is written to them.
This animated cartoon is projected by a 635-nanometer scanning laser at eight kilohertz onto a flexible plastic screen. Screens that fluoresce blue, green, and yellow-red could eventually be combined to create a full-color display.
Massachusetts Institute of Technology