The adaptive optics revolution : a history / / Robert W. Duffner ; foreword by Robert Q. Fugate.

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Year of Publication:2009
Language:English
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Physical Description:xxviii, 457 p. :; ill.
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245 1 4 |a The adaptive optics revolution  |h [electronic resource] :  |b a history /  |c Robert W. Duffner ; foreword by Robert Q. Fugate. 
260 |a Albuquerque :  |b University of New Mexico Press,  |c 2009. 
300 |a xxviii, 457 p. :  |b ill. 
504 |a Includes bibliographical references and index. 
505 0 |a 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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650 0 |a Optics, Adaptive  |x History. 
650 0 |a Optics, Adaptive  |x Research  |z United States  |x History. 
650 0 |a Laser guide star adaptive optics. 
650 0 |a Lasers  |x Military applications. 
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