The adaptive optics revolution a history /
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| Language: | English |
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Albuquerque :
University of New Mexico Press,
2009.
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| Online Access: | http://site.ebrary.com/lib/ucy/Doc?id=10492336 |
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.