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The adaptive optics revolution [electronic resource]

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Duffner has compiled the history of the most revolutionary breakthrough in astronomy since Galileo pointed his telescope skyward--the technology that will greatly expand our understanding of the universe.

Title The adaptive optics revolution [electronic resource] : a history / Robert W. Duffner
foreword by Robert Q. Fugate.
Publisher Albuquerque : University of New Mexico Press
Creation Date 2009
Notes Description based upon print version of record.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
English
Content 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.
Extent 1 online resource (487 p.)
Language English
National Library system number 997010706104905171
MARC RECORDS
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