Handbook of Visual Optics, Volume One

This comprehensive handbook offers a timely and up-to-date summary of visual optics, covering the fundamental principles, instrumentation, related methodologies, and clinical implications. Volume one provides an introduction to optical principles, ocular anatomy and physiology, and ophthalmic instruments, as well as a detailed treatment of the o

Preface

1. INTRODUCTION






1 History of Physiological Optics in the 20th Century
Gerald Westheimer




2 The Future of Visual Optics
David R. Williams






2. FUNDAMENTALS






3 Geometrical Optics


Jim Schwiegerling




4 Wave Optics
Daniel Malacara




5 Aberrations in Optical Systems


José Sasiá n




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







3. 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 Pé rez-Merino, and Carlos Dorronsoro

21 Peripheral Aberratio