- Description
- 1 online resource (xxviii, 457 p.) : ill.
- Uniform Title
- Adaptive optics revolution (Online)
- Alternative Title
- Adaptive optics revolution (Online)
- Subject
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Access (note)
- Access restricted to authorized users.
- 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.
- LCCN
- 2009005843
- OCLC
- ssj0000533708
- Author
Duffner, Robert W.
- Title
The adaptive optics revolution [electronic resource] : a history / Robert W. Duffner ; foreword by Robert Q. Fugate.
- Imprint
Albuquerque : University of New Mexico Press, 2009.
- Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Access
Access restricted to authorized users.
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