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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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.