The Adaptive Optics Revolution

The Adaptive Optics Revolution: A History

by Duffner, Robert W.

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Title Statements

  • Full title :The Adaptive Optics Revolution : A History / Robert W. Duffner ; foreword by Robert Q. Fugate.

Edition Statements

  • Publication Date:2009.

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The Physical Object

  • Description:1 online resource (xxviii, 457 p. :) : ill.

Edition Identifiers

  • ISBN:9780826346933, 0826346936
  • oclc:on1348214410
  • LC Classification:TA1522

Table of 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.

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Subjects

History Laser guide star adaptive optics Lasers -- Military applications Optics, Adaptive Optics, Adaptive -- History Optics, Adaptive -- Research -- United … Space telescopes United States

Writers

Duffner, Robert W.

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