TY  - BOOK
AU  - Duffner,Robert W.
TI  - The adaptive optics revolution: a history 
SN  - 9780826346933
AV  - TA1522 .D84 2009eb
U1  - 621.36/9 22
PY  - 2009///
CY  - Albuquerque
PB  - University of New Mexico Press
KW  - Optics, Adaptive
KW  - History
KW  - Research
KW  - United States
KW  - Laser guide star adaptive optics
KW  - Lasers
KW  - Military applications
KW  - Space telescopes
KW  - Optique adaptative
KW  - Histoire
KW  - Recherche
KW  - États-Unis
KW  - Étoiles laser guide pour l'optique adaptative
KW  - Applications militaires
KW  - Télescopes spatiaux
KW  - TECHNOLOGY & ENGINEERING
KW  - Optics
KW  - bisacsh
KW  - fast
KW  - Electronic books
N1  - Includes bibliographical references and index; 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
N2  - 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
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