The adaptive optics revolution [[electronic resource] ] : a history / / Robert W. Duffner ; foreword by Robert Q. Fugate
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| Autore: |
Duffner Robert W
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| Titolo: |
The adaptive optics revolution [[electronic resource] ] : a history / / Robert W. Duffner ; foreword by Robert Q. Fugate
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| Pubblicazione: | Albuquerque, : University of New Mexico Press, 2009 |
| Descrizione fisica: | 1 online resource (487 p.) |
| Disciplina: | 621.36/9 |
| Soggetto topico: | Optics, Adaptive - History |
| Optics, Adaptive - Research - United States - History | |
| Laser guide star adaptive optics | |
| Lasers - Military applications | |
| Space telescopes | |
| Note generali: | Description based upon print version of record. |
| Nota di bibliografia: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Nota di contenuto: | 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. |
| Sommario/riassunto: | 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. |
| Titolo autorizzato: | The adaptive optics revolution |
| ISBN: | 1-283-63696-4 |
| 0-8263-4693-6 | |
| Formato: | Materiale a stampa  |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione: | Inglese |
| Record Nr.: | 9910781738703321 |
| Lo trovi qui: | Univ. Federico II |
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