1 “...Modeling and Control of Antennas and Telescopes presents the author’s research and field experience...”

2 Table of Contents: “... Optics -- Fermat#x2019;s Principle and Third-Order Aberrations -- Newtonian and Cassegrain Telescopes...”

3 Table of Contents: “... Component Technologies -- 3 Infrared Telescopes -- 4 Focal Plane Arrays -- 5 Cryocooling Systems -- 6 Image...”

4 Table of Contents: “... Power -- Powering a VAD using the portable FREED System -- PORFIDO: Using neutrino telescopes and RFID...”

5 Table of Contents: “... Telescopes for Lifetime Measurements -- Performance and Application in High Energy Physics of Passive Ion...”

6 Table of Contents: “... -- Vibration of Star Images in Telescopes as a Function of Zenith Distance -- Distribution of Wave-Front...”

7 Table of Contents: “... to the 21st Century. Reconstruction of Herschel’s Telescope -- Piston Engine Versus Rotary Engine – Possible...”

8 Table of Contents: “... -- 1.2. Thin Lenses Layout. Microscope and Telescope Optical Configurations -- 1.3. Diaphragms in Optical...”

9 Table of Contents: “... System for a Large Radio Telescope -- Biological Actuating Materials -- Biofilm Growth: Perspectives...”

10 Table of Contents: “... Filled with Ionic and Covalent Materials -- Electron Transport in Carbon Nanotube Shuttles and Telescopes...”

11 Table of Contents: “... and systems -- 7.5 Conclusion -- References -- 8 Radioastronomy -- 8.1 Introduction -- 8.2 Radio telescopes...”

12 Table of Contents: “... the Robert C. Byrd Green Bank Telescope -- First Results on Acquisition and Tracking of the GIOVE-A Signal...”

13 Table of Contents: “... of Geometrical Optics -- 1.3. Image Formation -- 1.4. Complex Systems -- 1.5. The Telescoping System -- 1.6. Some...”

14 Table of Contents: “... Instrumentation Systems -- Grid Integration of Future Arrays of Broadband Radio-Telescopes Moving Toward E-VLBI --...”

15 Table of Contents: “... in a Nonlinear Ring Resonator and Related Effects -- Synchronous Fiber-Optic Gravitational Telescopes...”

16 Table of Contents: “... with SPOL, RXTE and Fermi-LAT telescopes -- Growth, Structural, Optical, Thermal and Mechanical Studies of a...”