Sinopsis

Handbook of Visual Optics offers an authoritative overview of encyclopedic knowledge in the field of physiological optics. It builds from fundamental concepts to the science and technology of instruments and practical procedures of vision correction, integrating expert knowledge from physics, medicine, biology, psychology, and engineering. The chapters comprehensively cover all aspects of modern study and practice, from optical principles and optics of the eye and retina to novel ophthalmictools for imaging and visual testing, devices and techniques for visual correction, and the relationship between ocular optics and visual perception.

Features

Offers a comprehensive treatment of fundamental aspects, covering physics and engineering of instrumentation for imaging and ophthalmic applications, devices and techniques for visual correction, and impact on visual perception
Addresses both the basic science and the latest technological advances and clinical procedures
Discusses basic optical principles, anatomy and physiology, and eye optics
Presents the state of the art in novel instrumentation for imaging and visual testing, as well as methods and devices for surgical and non-surgical visual correction procedures
Contains the contributions of a renowned expert in the field (recipient of OSA’s prestigious Edwin Land Medal in 2013), plus contributions from the top researchers in their respective disciplines from around the world

Contents

Preface

INTRODUCTION

1 History of Physiological Optics in the 20th Century

Gerald Westheimer

2 The Future of Visual Optics

David R. Williams

FUNDAMENTALS

3 Geometrical Optics

Jim Schwiegerling

4 Wave Optics

Daniel Malacara

5 Aberrations in Optical Systems

José Sasián

6 Photometry

Yoshi Ohno

7 Characterization of Visual Stimuli using the Standard Display Model

Joyce E. Farrell, Haomiao Jiang, and Brian A. Wandell

8 Basic Ophthalmic Instruments

Walter Furlan

9 Instrumentation for Adaptive Optics

Chris Dainty

10 Anatomy and Embryology of the Eye: An Overview

Vivian Choh and Jacob G. Sivak

11 The Retina

Michael A. Freed

12 Visual System Architecture

Jonathan Winawer and Hiroshi Horiguchi

13 Visual Psychophysical Methods

Denis G. Pelli and Joshua A. Solomon

OPTICAL PROPERTIES OF THE EYE

14 The Cornea

Michael Collins, Stephen Vincent, and Scott Read

15 The Lens

Fabrice Manns

16 Schematic Eyes

David A. Atchinson

17 Axes and Angles of the Eye

David A. Atchinson

18 The Retina and the Stiles-Crawford Effects

Brian Vohnsen

19 Refractive Errors

David A. Wilson

20 Monochromatic Aberrations

Susana Marcos, Pablo Pérez-Merino, and Carlos Dorronsoro

21 Peripheral Aberrations

Linda Lundström and Robert Rosén

22 Customized Eye Models

Juan Tabernero

23 Scattering, Straylight, and Glare

Thomas J. T. P. van den Berg

24 Accommodation Mechanisms

Shrikant R. Bharadwaj

25 Accommodation Dynamics

Barry Winn and Lyle S. Gray

26 Eye Movements

Andrew J. Anderson

27 Aging and the Eye’s Optics

Neil Charman

28 Polarization Properties

Juan M. Bueno
Editor(s) Bio

Pablo Artal, PhD, is a professor of optics at the University of Murcia, Spain.