The adaptive optics revolution : a history / Robert W. Duffner ; foreword by Robert Q. Fugate.
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TextPublication details: Albuquerque : University of New Mexico Press, 2009.Description: 1 online resource (xxviii, 457 pages) : illustrationsContent type: - text
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- online resource
- 9780826346933
- 0826346936
- 1283636964
- 9781283636964
- 6613949426
- 9786613949424
- Optics, Adaptive -- History
- Optics, Adaptive -- Research -- United States -- History
- Laser guide star adaptive optics
- Lasers -- Military applications
- Space telescopes
- Optique adaptative -- Histoire
- Optique adaptative -- Recherche -- États-Unis -- Histoire
- Étoiles laser guide pour l'optique adaptative
- Lasers -- Applications militaires
- Télescopes spatiaux
- TECHNOLOGY & ENGINEERING -- Optics
- Laser guide star adaptive optics
- Lasers -- Military applications
- Optics, Adaptive
- Space telescopes
- United States
- 621.36/9 22
- TA1522 .D84 2009eb
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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.
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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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