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Author Duffner, Robert W

Title The adaptive optics revolution : a history / Robert W. Duffner ; foreword by Robert Q. Fugate
Published Albuquerque : University of New Mexico Press, 2009

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Description 1 online resource (xxviii, 457 pages) : illustrations
Contents Sputnik, reality, and technology -- Early days : the Romans -- Rome and Itek : first adaptive optics systems -- Laser guide stars -- Fugate's Rayleigh guide star experiments -- Lincoln laboratory -- Sharing the gold : astronomical nuggets -- Strategic defense initiative -- Airborne laser -- 3.5-meter military telescope complex : Starfire Optical Range, New Mexico -- 3.67-meter military telescope complex : Maui, Hawaii -- Sodium guide star laser : the future
Summary Duffner has compiled the history of the most revolutionary breakthrough in astronomy since Galileo pointed his telescope skyward--the technology that will greatly expand our understanding of the universe
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
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Subject Optics, Adaptive -- History
Optics, Adaptive -- Research -- United States -- History
Laser guide star adaptive optics.
Lasers -- Military applications.
Space telescopes.
TECHNOLOGY & ENGINEERING -- Optics.
Laser guide star adaptive optics
Lasers -- Military applications
Optics, Adaptive
Space telescopes
United States
Genre/Form History
Form Electronic book
LC no. 2009005843
ISBN 9780826346933
0826346936
1283636964
9781283636964
6613949426
9786613949424