Handbook of Visual Optics, Volume One

Hear from Dr. Artal at this Q&A session: http://ow.ly/wudA30fLW84 Pablo Artal received his Ph.D. degree in Physics from the University Complutense of Madrid, and was a post-doctoral fellow at the Institut d'Optique, Orsay, France and a senior researcher at the Instituto de Optica in Madrid. He is since 1994 full Professor of Optics at the University of Murcia, Spain. He spent several periods doing collaborative research in laboratories in Europe, Australia and USA. He is a fellow member of the OSA and ARVO. He received the prestigious 2013 Edwin H Land medal award in recognition of his scientific contributions to the advancement of diagnostic and correction alternatives in visual optics. He is the recipient of the exclusive "ERC advanced grant" in 2013. He has published more than 150 reviewed papers that received 5500 citations (h-index: 41), presented more than 150 invited talks in international meetings and around 120 seminars in different research institutions. He is also a co-inventor of 18 international patents in the field of Optics and Ophthalmology. He has pioneered a number of highly innovative advances in the methods for studying the optics of the eye and has contributed substantially to our understanding of the factors that limit human visual resolution. Dr. Artal is a pioneer in exploring the human eye with new technologies and designed new ophthalmic corrections. Several of his proposed solutions and instrument are currently in use in the clinical practice. For example, he co-invented intraocular lenses correcting for the corneal spherical aberration that provides improved quality of vision to millions of patients over the world. Dr. Artal is the founder of Voptica SL a spin-off company developing the concept he invented of adaptive optics vision analyzers. He has been the mentor of many graduate and post-doctoral students. His personal science blog is followed by readers, mostly graduate students and fellow researchers, from around the world. He has been editor of the Journal of the Optical Society of America A and the Journal of Vision.

Preface






INTRODUCTION
1 History of Physiological Optics in the 20th Century

Gerald Westheimer

2 The Future of Visual Optics

David R. Williams




FUNDAMENTALS
3 Geometrical Optics

Jim Schwiegerling

4 Wave Optics

Daniel Malacara

5 Aberrations in Optical Systems

José Sasián

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






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 Pérez-Merino, and Carlos Dorronsoro

21 Peripheral Aberrations

Linda Lundström and Robert Rosén

22 Customized Eye Models

Juan Tabernero

23 Scattering, Straylight, and Glare

Thomas J. T. P. van den Berg

24 Accommodation Mechanisms

Shrikant R. Bharadwaj

25 Accommodation Dynamics

Barry Winn and Lyle S. Gray

26 Eye Movements

Andrew J. Anderson

27 Aging and the Eye’s Optics

W. Neil Charman

28 Polarization Properties

Juan M. Bueno