Handbook of Visual Optics, Volume One: Fundamentals and Eye Optics

Description:

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 ophthalmic tools for imaging and visual testing, devices and techniques for visual correction, and the relationship between ocular optics and visual perception.

Table of Contents:

Part I Introduction

1. History of physiological optics in the twentieth century

2. Possibilities in physiological optics

Part II Fundamentals

3. Geometrical optics

4. Wave optics

5. Aberrations in optical systems

6. Photometry

7. Characterization of visual stimuli using the standard display model

8. Basic ophthalmic instruments

9. Instrumentation for adaptiveoptics

10. Anatomy and embryology of theeye: An overview

11. The retina

12. Visual system architecture

13. Visual psychophysical methods

Part III Optical properties of the eye

14. The cornea

15. The lens

16. Schematic eyes

17. Axes and angles of the eye

18. The retina and the Stiles–Crawford effects

19. Refractive errors

20. Monochromatic aberrations

21. Peripheral aberrations

22. Customized eye models

23. Scattering, straylight, and glare

24. Accommodation mechanisms

25. Accommodation dynamics

26. Eye Movements

27. Aging and the eye’s optics

28. Polarization properties