The adaptive optics revolution [electronic resource] : a history / Robert W. Duffner ; foreword by Robert Q. Fugate.
Publication details: Albuquerque : University of New Mexico Press, 2009.Description: xxviii, 457 p. : illISBN:- 9780826346919 (cloth : alk. paper)
- 082634691X (cloth : alk. paper)
- 9780826346933 (e-book)
- 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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