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The adaptive optics revolution : a history
- Title
- The adaptive optics revolution : a history / Robert W. Duffner ; foreword by Robert Q. Fugate.
- Author
- Duffner, Robert W.
- Publication
- Albuquerque : University of New Mexico Press, 2009.
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| Status | Format | Access | Call Number | Item Location |
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- Description
- xxviii, 457 pages : illustrations; 24 cm
- Subjects
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Contents
- Foreword / Robert Q. Fugate -- Ch. 1. Sputnik, Reality, and Technology -- Ch. 2. Early Days: The Romans -- Ch. 3. Rome and Itek: First Adaptive Optics Systems -- Ch. 4. Laser Guide Stars -- Ch. 5. Fugate's Rayleigh Guide Star Experiments -- Ch. 6. Lincoln Laboratory -- Ch. 7. Sharing the Gold: Astronomical Nuggets -- Ch. 8. Strategic Defense Initiative -- Ch. 9. Airborne Laser -- Ch. 10. 3.5-Meter Military Telescope Complex: Starfire Optical Range, New Mexico -- Ch. 11. 3.67-Meter Military Telescope Complex: Maui, Hawaii -- Ch. 12. Sodium Guide Star Laser: The Future.
- ISBN
- 9780826346919 (cloth : alk. paper)
- 082634691X (cloth : alk. paper)
- LCCN
- 2009005843
- 40016823692
- OCLC
- ocn298513287
- 298513287
- SCSB-5479246
- Owning Institutions
- Columbia University Libraries