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Tech & Innovation
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NZ’s photonics, quantum industry underperforms global peers

‘This is a wake-up call about the opportunity’: Dodd-Walls Centre director Fred Vanholsbeeck.
 

Photonics is science and tech related to the generation, transmission and manipulation of light.

Few of us appreciate that photonic and quantum technologies enable much of what we do in modern life – from the smartphone we use, to the satellite technology underpinning the weather report, to the MRI scan we have in hospital.

New Zealand has built a $1.5 billion photonics industry, which is

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Fiona Rotherham Mon, 16 Sep 2024
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