The adaptive optics revolution a history /

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Main Author: Duffner, Robert W.
Corporate Author: ebrary, Inc
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Albuquerque : University of New Mexico Press, 2009.
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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.