| RefNo | EC/1997/15 |
| Level | Item |
| Title | Kao, Kuen Charles: certificate of election to the Royal Society |
| Date | 1996 |
| Description | Citation typed on separate piece of paper, then pasted onto certificate |
| Citation | Distinguished for his pioneering work which has led to optical fibre telecommunications. It was in 1966 that Dr Kao, as principle author, published the seminal paper on the theory and practical possibilities of using optical fibres for transmission. The paper predicted the potential for achieving the very wide communication bandwidths which have subsequently been realised. At the time the losses in glass fibre were too large by far to be useable in practice. It required both vision and optimism to proceed. He embarked on the study of losses in fibres and developed novel techniques which were capable of measuring the ultra-low losses in the materials which subsequently emerged. He continued to make significant contributions to the development of optical fibre telecommunications as recorded in his numerous publications and his 31 patents. His primacy in the optical telecommunications revolution has been attested by the award of the 1996 Japan Prizem - the most recent of many recognitions by learned societies and by industry. |
| AccessStatus | Closed |
Fellows associated with this archive
| Code | PersonName | Dates |
| NA4467 | Kao; Kuen Charles (1933 - 2018) | 1933 - 2018 |