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Phoenix from the flames

Nature Photonics volume 1, pages 255–256 (2007)Cite this article

Eighteen months ago a massive fire ripped through the Optoelectronics Research Centre at Southampton University in the UK. Nadya Anscombe talks to David Payne about the lessons learned and the future of one of the world's largest photonics research groups.

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Figure 1: Up in smoke.

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Figure 2: David Payne and colleagues in the Interfab facility

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  1. Nadya Anscombe is a freelance science journalist based in the UK. mail@nadya-anscombe.com,

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Anscombe, N. Phoenix from the flames. Nature Photon 1, 255–256 (2007). https://doi.org/10.1038/nphoton.2007.58

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