Single dispersive gradient-index profile for the aging human lens
JOSA A, Vol. 25, Issue 1, pp. 250-261 (2008)
http://dx.doi.org/10.1364/JOSAA.25.000250
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Abstract
We provide a single gradient-index (GRIN) profile for the crystalline lens in an updated age-dependent emmetropic-eye model. The parameters defining the GRIN profile include their variation with age and the dispersion of the refractive index in order to account for the increase in the positive-wave spherical aberration, for the constant chromatic difference in the refraction of the human eye, as well as for the decrease in the retinal-image quality with aging. In accounting for these ocular properties, the results show that first, the value of the dispersion parameters are invariant with age. Second, those parameters defining the distribution of the lens index cause the lens-center-index value to decrease slightly, and its position along the lens axis changes with age. Furthermore, these findings are in agreement with the lens paradox.
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OCIS Codes
(110.2760) Imaging systems : Gradient-index lenses
(170.4460) Medical optics and biotechnology : Ophthalmic optics and devices
(330.5370) Vision, color, and visual optics : Physiological optics
ToC Category:
Vision, color, and visual optics
History
Original Manuscript: May 8, 2007
Revised Manuscript: October 23, 2007
Manuscript Accepted: November 4, 2007
Published: December 21, 2007
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Citation
José Antonio Díaz, Carles Pizarro, and Josep Arasa, "Single dispersive gradient-index profile for the aging human lens," J. Opt. Soc. Am. A 25, 250-261 (2008)
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