Love Is in the Air

Love Is in the Air

Book: Lighter Side of Adaptive Optics

Author(s): Robert K. Tyson

Published: 2009

https://doi.org/10.1117/3.2054334.ch1

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Abstract

Turbulent air screws up images. Horace Babcock came up with the idea for adaptive optics, a way to compensate for the turbulence and unscrew the images. Military developments from the 1970s to the early 1990s produced the technology necessary to make an adaptive optics system.