Optics of human eye: 400 years of exploration from Galileo’s time
Applied Optics, Vol. 49, Issue 16, pp. D123-D130 (2010)
http://dx.doi.org/10.1364/AO.49.00D123
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Abstract
We present a brief historical background and a description of the main features of the eye’s optical properties: the eye is a simple, but rather optimized, optical instrument. It is only since Galileo’s time that the importance of the eye as a part of different optical instruments has driven a continuous scientific exploration of ocular optics. In the past decade, the use of wavefront sensing technology allowed us to complete our understating of eye optics as a robust aplanatic system.
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OCIS Codes
(000.2850) General : History and philosophy
(330.0330) Vision, color, and visual optics : Vision, color, and visual optics
(330.7326) Vision, color, and visual optics : Visual optics, modeling
(330.7327) Vision, color, and visual optics : Visual optics, ophthalmic instrumentation
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Vision Optics
History
Original Manuscript: November 30, 2009
Revised Manuscript: April 15, 2010
Manuscript Accepted: April 26, 2010
Published: May 17, 2010
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(2010) Advances in Optics and Photonics
Vol. 5, Iss. 10 Virtual Journal for Biomedical Optics
Citation
Pablo Artal and Juan Tabernero, "Optics of human eye: 400 years of exploration from Galileo’s time," Appl. Opt. 49, D123-D130 (2010)
http://www.opticsinfobase.org/vjbo/abstract.cfm?URI=ao-49-16-D123
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