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Photonics in South Africa

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A growing research and development sector is a sign of a healthy economy. South Africa hopes that a focus on photonics technologies will help drive the country's socio–economic development.

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Figure 1: Philemon Mjwara (left), the Director General of the DST, during a visit to the research labs of the NLC.

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    Christoph Bollig, Andrew Forbes & Thulani Dlamini

  2. School of Physics, University of KwaZulu-Natal, Durban, 4001, South Africa

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