David Atchison

Optics of the Human Eye

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

This book describes the optical structure and optical properties of the human eye. It is divided into a number of short chapters with each chapter dedicated to a single theme. For ease of reference, the most commonly useful topics are at the beginning and topics with narrower appeal, such as ocular aberrations, are placed towards the end.

Produktdetails

• Multidisciplinary and Applied Optics
• Verlag: Taylor & Francis Ltd
• 2 ed
• Seitenzahl: 478
• Erscheinungstermin: 31. März 2023
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 234mm x 156mm x 27mm
• Gewicht: 886g
• ISBN-13: 9780367640514
• ISBN-10: 0367640511
• Artikelnr.: 66718738

Autorenporträt

David Atchison DSc is a professor in the School of Optometry & Vision Sciences at Queensland University of Optometry in Brisbane, Australia, where he researches and teaches Ophthalmic Optics and Visual Optics. He is a Fellow of the Optical Society and of the American Academy Optometry, and is a board member of the journals Clinical & Experimental Optometry and Ophthalmic & Physiological Optics. Awards include the Garland W. Clay award of the American Academy of Optometry (together with George Smith), the HB Collin Research medal of Optometry Australia, and the Glenn A. Fry award of the American Academy of Optometry.

Inhaltsangabe

1. The Human Eye: An Overview. 2. Refracting Components: Cornea and Lens.
3. The Pupil. 4. Axes of The Eyes. Chapter 5. Paraxial Schematic Eyes. 6.
Image Formation: The Focused Paraxial Image. 7. Refractive Anomalies. 8
Measuring Refractive Errors. Chapter 9. Image Formation: The Defocused
Paraxial Image. 10. Some Optical Effects of Ophthalmic Lenses. 11. Light
and The Eye: Introduction. 12 Passage of Light into The Eye 13. Light Level
at The Retina. 14. Light Interaction with The Fundus. 15. Monochromatic
Aberrations. 16. Monochromatic aberrations of optical model eyes . 17.
Chromatic Aberration. 18. Retinal Image Quality.19. Depth-Of-Field. 20. The
Aging Eye. Appendix 1. Paraxial optics. Appendix 2. Seidel aberration
theory. Appendix 3. Schematic eyes. Appendix 4. Refraction powers across
the pupil. Appendix 5. Calculation of PSF and OTF from aberrations of an
optical system.